Failure to print anything

Alexander Osborne alexanderosborne at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Jul 27 09:06:49 PDT 2005


> Alexander Osborne wrote:
> >
> > I installed Red Hat in March and have never been able to print anything!
> > I decided to update my Red Hat system with Fedora Core 3 in hope that that would enable me to print. I installed the Lexmark Z42 via localhost:631 instead of via kprinter.
> > and successfully printed the Test Page.
> > I then tried printing an html page of my own and it printed the first 4 lines including a coloured logo, then stalled. Since then It won't print! I edited cupsd.conf changing from 'info' to 'debug' and tried again.
> > The output of error_log seems normal until it enters the Backend then:
> > LPGETSTATUS returned a port status of 18 - - more unremarkable lines then
> > Stopping search for page header options
> > Output goes to renderer now
> > sh: z42 cmyk: command not found - - - more lines ,then at the end of Page setup:
> > Saw trailer!  Saw EOF!
> > Inserting code into PageSetup section
> > Out put goes to FIFO buffer now
> > Found: BeginPageSetup
> > Found EndPageSetup
> > End of page header
> > Flushing FIFO
> > Closing renderer
> > cat: write error: Broken pipe               more unremarkable lines then
> > Last OS error 32
> > Ghostscript 7.07 Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> > Would be grateful for any clue as to what is going on.
> > AlexO   (Osborne 1934)
>
> There is obviously something going wrong with the foomatic-rip filter which is involved
> with your printer. Foomatic-rip has an internal debug switch
> 	$debug = 0;
> Set it to 1 and have a look at your error_log then.
> And, BTW, what is "z42 cmyk"?
>
> Helge
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Thank you for your reply
How do I make the change: $debug=1 in Foomatic-rip filter?
'sh: z42 cmyk: command not found' is mystery to me also.
It occurs in the error log: 'renderer command: size=letter; hdpi=600; gs -q -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bitcmyk.....I suspect it is a printer class
AlexO




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