Failure to print anything

[Helge Blischke]

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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