Using CUPS with Suse 9.3 and Lexmark E312 on LAN Print Server

[Michael Fritz]

Hi,

I've set up CUPS on my Suse Linux 9.3 (all available updates from Suse 
are installed) to print on my Lexmark Optra E312 laser printer.

This printer is plugged into a LAN print server box which can be access 
usind lpd://192.168.6.99/lp2 where "lp2" is the printer queue for this 
USB printer. I'm using the "Lexmark Optra E312 Foomatic/Postscript 
(recommended)" PPD file or better selection form the CUPS setup, which 
was delivered by Suse.

This setup worked well before with a Mandrake 10.x installation, however 
the actual Suse Linux system is printing only garbage. This means: the 
print job reaches the print server in my LAN but the printout contains 
only some pages with ASCII text on it.

It begins with:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Pages: (atend)
%%Boundingbox: (atend)
....

It seems the printer does not know how to handle this PS definition (is 
it really a PS-definition?).

Perhaps someone can give me some advice how I can get this problem solved.

Thanks,
cu
Michael