Printing Postscript file to HP5500 printer

[Kurt Pfeifle]

danesh <d.qureshi at mdx.ac.uk> wrote (Tuesday 06 June 2006 13:55):

> Hello,
> 
> I have a PostScript file which does not print to a HP5500HDN printer.

What exactly is the problem with the file?
Can you display the file OK with a PostScript viewer like "gv"?

> I 
> can print Ascii files and the test print to the HP5500HDN printer
> successfully.
> 
> I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
> on a HP Proliant DL585 server.
> 
> I have the CUPS daemon process running and added the HP5500HDN printer
> using the Web interface to CUPS i.e. http://localhost:631.
> 
> I have looked at error_log file but there no indication of any errors or
> problems. 

So the file gets sent off successfully to the printer, but the
printer does.... what?

> Can you suggest how I can get my Postscript file printed to the 
> this HP 5500HDN printer?.

Can you explain more in detail what the actual problem with that
file is? Do other files print OK?

> Thanks you.
> Dan..

Cheers,
Kurt