On Thursday 11 September 2003 12:00 pm, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

I've just switched to cups as print server. It's very nice except for one strange thing. There are some ps files that won't print! I send them to the printer, they're in the queue and the seem to be printed - they just never actually come out as paper.

I can't see any real difference between the ones that will and the ones that won't - they both look OK with gs.

I can't see any trace of them; no entry in any log.

If I convert the nonprinting files with ps2pdf or ps2ps they print fine too.

What is the best idea? Any way to see what's actually going on? Or is it better to ps2ps all ps files - and if so, how to do that with cups ??

You don't mention it but I assume you have a printer that will handle PS. I have seen the same thing but it is usually attributed to some 'garbage' in the print file that upsets the printer. In my case, when I try to print one of these, the light on the printer will turn on showing that it is receiving data but it will then go out without printing anything. Something to try might be to print the output to a file and then use the lp command to print the file (just to see if it does print) Also try specifying 'kprinter' as your printer. This causes kprinter to get into the act and I find that it does a pretty good job of shuffling printout to a printer. It might process the file a bit differently than your current process. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/11/03 12:11 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Only someone with nothing to be sorry for smiles back at the rear of an elephant."