Hi, My Laserjet-5mp, installed with Cups in SuSE-9.2, persists in printing only one page of multipage documents. When I cat a multipage ps file straight to /dev/lp0 it prints without problems, but when I send it with lpr only the first page is printed. Is there a known problem with cups filtering? -- Wybo
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-17-05 17:51]:
My Laserjet-5mp, installed with Cups in SuSE-9.2, persists in printing only one page of multipage documents.
When I cat a multipage ps file straight to /dev/lp0 it prints without problems, but when I send it with lpr only the first page is printed.
Is there a known problem with cups filtering?
More usually the problem is user related. What is the output of 'lpoptions' and of 'lpq' from the command line? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-17-05 17:51]:
My Laserjet-5mp, installed with Cups in SuSE-9.2, persists in printing only one page of multipage documents.
When I cat a multipage ps file straight to /dev/lp0 it prints without problems, but when I send it with lpr only the first page is printed.
Is there a known problem with cups filtering?
More usually the problem is user related.
You're quite right :-((
What is the output of 'lpoptions' and of 'lpq' from the command line?
Here's the requested output, plus the config file: wybo>lpoptions job-sheets=none,none wybo>lpq hplaserjet5mp is ready no entries wybo>sudo cat /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.21 # Written by cupsd on Thu Feb 17 23:34:00 2005 <DefaultPrinter hplaserjet5mp> Info Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5MP Location Parallel printer on /dev/lp0 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> -- Wybo
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 05:50]:
Here's the requested output, plus the config file:
wybo>lpoptions job-sheets=none,none wybo>lpq hplaserjet5mp is ready no entries wybo>sudo cat /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.21 # Written by cupsd on Thu Feb 17 23:34:00 2005 <DefaultPrinter hplaserjet5mp> Info Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5MP Location Parallel printer on /dev/lp0 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer>
I see nothing wrong here. When you print via cups, what interface are you using, kprinter, xpp, ....? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 05:50]:
Here's the requested output, plus the config file:
wybo>lpoptions job-sheets=none,none wybo>lpq hplaserjet5mp is ready no entries wybo>sudo cat /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.21 # Written by cupsd on Thu Feb 17 23:34:00 2005 <DefaultPrinter hplaserjet5mp> Info Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5MP Location Parallel printer on /dev/lp0 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer>
I see nothing wrong here. When you print via cups, what interface are you using, kprinter, xpp, ....?
just lpr... -- Wybo
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 17:42]:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I see nothing wrong here. When you print via cups, what interface are you using, kprinter, xpp, ....?
just lpr...
Duh, excuse me. I just re-read your original post and, IIANM, you stated that you sent output via cat to /dev/lp0 and to lpr. You sent one stream directly to the printer/printer-port without benefit of cups or any filters and the other, which you say printed correctly, to the printer, lpr, via your installed interface, cups. What you sent to /dev/lp0 would have printed as the printer interpreted it as RAW material. CUPS had nothing to do with it. Does this satisfy your query? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 17:42]:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I see nothing wrong here. When you print via cups, what interface are you using, kprinter, xpp, ....?
just lpr...
Duh, excuse me. I just re-read your original post and, IIANM, you stated that you sent output via cat to /dev/lp0 and to lpr. You sent one stream directly to the printer/printer-port without benefit of cups or any filters and the other, which you say printed correctly, to the printer, lpr, via your installed interface, cups.
What you sent to /dev/lp0 would have printed as the printer interpreted it as RAW material. CUPS had nothing to do with it.
Does this satisfy your query?
no: when I send a multipage ps-file to /dev/lp0 with cat, it prints all pages without problems, (I did so only to verify that nothing is wrong with the PostScript file) but when I send it with lpr it prints only the first page. Normally one would like to be able to send files to the printer with lpr, especially if they are not PostScript... -- Wybo
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 18:14]:
no: when I send a multipage ps-file to /dev/lp0 with cat, it prints all pages without problems, (I did so only to verify that nothing is wrong with the PostScript file) but when I send it with lpr it prints only the first page. Normally one would like to be able to send files to the printer with lpr, especially if they are not PostScript...
which ppd file have you used when configuring cups? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 18:14]:
no: when I send a multipage ps-file to /dev/lp0 with cat, it prints all pages without problems, (I did so only to verify that nothing is wrong with the PostScript file) but when I send it with lpr it prints only the first page. Normally one would like to be able to send files to the printer with lpr, especially if they are not PostScript...
which ppd file have you used when configuring cups?
Aha, that's it, thanks! I took the recommended one: Laserjet_5MP-PostScript. I now tried the other three and they printed all pages. The second one, Laserjet_5MP-gimp-print-ijs, printed about 3 mm too much to the right. So I would advise either Laserjet_5MP-gimp-print or Laserjet_5MP-hpijs -- Wybo
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 05:46, Wybo Dekker wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> [02-18-05 18:14]:
no: when I send a multipage ps-file to /dev/lp0 with cat, it prints all pages without problems, (I did so only to verify that nothing is wrong with the PostScript file) but when I send it with lpr it prints only the first page. Normally one would like to be able to send files to the printer with lpr, especially if they are not PostScript...
which ppd file have you used when configuring cups?
Aha, that's it, thanks! I took the recommended one: Laserjet_5MP-PostScript.
I now tried the other three and they printed all pages.
The second one, Laserjet_5MP-gimp-print-ijs, printed about 3 mm too much to the right.
So then why not adjust the margin settings? Start kprinter, select the printer, go to properties and make the adjustment.
So I would advise either Laserjet_5MP-gimp-print or Laserjet_5MP-hpijs
-- Wybo -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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** Reply to message from Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> on Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:51:15 +0100 (CET)
Hi,
My Laserjet-5mp, installed with Cups in SuSE-9.2, persists in printing only one page of multipage documents.
When I cat a multipage ps file straight to /dev/lp0 it prints without problems, but when I send it with lpr only the first page is printed.
Is there a known problem with cups filtering? -- Wybo
I have what seems to be a similar (but not quite as bad) problem using 9.2 and an HP Laserjet 5P with CUPS. This problem affects only certain .pdf documents. For example, I will download a 30 page .pdf file from the Internet, and pages 1-19 will print just fine. But then the printer stops on page 20 and absolutely will not print that page. I can restart the print job and select pages 21-30, and those will print. But page 20 refuses to print no matter what I do, no matter what range of pages I select. The first light bar on the printer flashes once, as if it were about to start printing, but then it stops. Even if I tell the printer to print only page 20, it won't. This seems to be totally random and I am guessing that it must be tied somehow to the individual document -- something hardcoded into the .pdf?? Would anything else account for this odd printing behavior? Thx Gil
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