[cups.general] HP8100's and PDF files

Jeff Port port at cse.psu.edu
Fri Jan 26 13:18:59 PST 2007


Hi All,

I know the true answer to this problem is to get new printers as the 
LaserJet 8100's seem to just hate most PDF files.  However, I thought 
I'd take one last stab at solving this problem by asking this group.

The problem - and I suspect it has a lot to do with the Postscript Level 
- is that we have two 8100 series printers here and they both throw a 
79.00FE error on many of the PDF's that are sent to them.  Of course the 
printer halts, drops communication and cups stops the que (and being the 
noob that I am) and I have no idea why cups does that even.  We have 
many different OS's printing to these various printers and I'm not 
having any luck in nailing down what software is printing the jobs that 
fail.

My question to this group, is it possible to update this printer to 
accept PS Level 3, and in doing so will that fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Jeff Port - IT Support
Computer Science & Engineering Dept
111B Info. Sci. Tech. Bldg
University Park, PA 16802







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