[cups.general] Big problem with printserver !!

[Helge Blischke]

Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we are running a cups 1.1.20 printserver for nearlly two years
> without big problems.
> All unix users are printing directly, the windows users use
> samba on top of the system to access the printers.
> 
> In the last weeks many print jobs failed to print. Many
> copies of the printjob are locate under /var/spool/cups/tmp
> and have to be deletet manualy !
> 
> All printer (HP8000,HP4500C,Konica K7022,K7155) start to print
> a few pages and then produce a error message and start again
> with the first page.
> 
> Has anybody an idea what's going on here ?
> 
> I can reproduce the problem with a pdf from linux.
> 
> I also testet my local machine as printserver and also
> a third machine - all the same.
> 

Please tell us more about your configuration. I suspect you use the LPD
protocol
to access the printers, and I suspect your Win clients have started to
produce
binary print jobs.

Helge

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