[cups.general] Multiple Connections on 631 and apparent loop

Michael Thrift mike at connectusnet.com
Sun May 23 22:13:18 PDT 2004


K, I managed to fixed the first half of my problem, the printer prints without
multiple connections and filling up my harddrive and within decent time. 
Howeever, it still saturates the paper with color ink, and I really can't
afford that.  I'm running cups 1.2.x any ideas?

Quoting Michael Thrift <mike at connectusnet.com>:

> Hi,
>      Well, I have fought with this for quite a while to no avail.  Here is my
> system information:
>
> OS: RH9.0
> Printer: HP820Cxi
> Driver: HP Deskjet 820C, Foomatic + pnm2ppa
> CPU: 2.8Ghz P4
> Ram: 512Mb
> HDD Space remaining: 7Gb
>
> K, so I have been trying to get my printer working for the longest time, and
> I
> have yet to have any success.  The problem is that there appears to be a loop
> occuring.  When I send the simplest document to print, the directory
> /var/spool/cups is filled with random amounts of data no less than 100Mb to
> 7Gb, and this is from printing a 17Kb file for example.  So I have discovered
> that the files which are being written to /var/spool/cups are completely
> identical (determined via md5sums).  Now, I also discovered today that
> whenever
> I start the cups daemon, eventually there are hundreds of connections to port
> 631 listed when I do a netstat (these are connections not listening ports),
> yet
> nobody is connected to my system, and I have not sent anything to print.  The
> list of connections continues to grow no matter what happens.  Originally I
> was
> using Cups 1.1.17, and so I figured I'd upgrade to see if that would fix it,
> and it has actually made things worse.  Another thing that happens when I try
> to print is my hole system bogs down to a crawl, which definately shouldnt'
> happen just from printing a 17Kb file.
>      Another problem I have had is when I try to print color documents.  I
> have
> never been able to find a setting that prevents the printer from spewing
> color
> ink on the paper, the paper literally becomes wet with ink, which is
> obviously
> expensive and wasteful.  I have set saturation to 0, I have tried messing
> with
> the gamma but it does nothing, the only thing that seems to make a difference
> is if I set it to econofast mode which means my copies are crap quality.  I
> hope that's enough information, I have been fighting with this for months and
> months, I am currently rebooting into windows to print cause I can't do it
> without crashing Linux.  Thanks for any help!
>
> Mike.
>
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