[cups.general] PDFs do not Print

Fri Mar 9 10:13:32 PST 2007

Try a raw Postscript printing to the printer. 
Lp -d Gestetner -o raw ~/cups-1.2.7/data/testprint.ps

Make sure you are using correct printing protocol
Socket://ipaddress:9100

Or:
ftp testprint.ps to ftp://printeripaddress

Or print from Windows Postscript driver.

If this doesn't work, it might mean that the Adobe Postscript
interpreter is corrupted somehow. Call technician.

I think the printer supports PDF direct printing. Which means you can do
PDF raw printing. Lp -d Gestetner -o raw myfile.pdf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On
Behalf
> Of adfas asd
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:57 AM
> To: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] PDFs do not Print
> 
> Thank you for that comprehensive response Gene.
> 
> Yes I was earlier able to print when I did the pdftops
> conversion, but not any more.  For some reason I can
> no longer print to the color printer with the PS
> driver, and I do not have time to fsck with it.  I
> must make a living, rather than bit-twiddling with the
> ever-busted Cups. (9 years of headaches)
> 
> I can print everything to the other office printer,
> albeit in black-and-white, and I am using the PCL
> driver for that.  I notice that the color printer also
> accepts PCL, so maybe if I can find a PCL driver for
> the Gestetner DSc38u, I can survive.
> 
> 
> --- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 07 March 2007, adfas asd wrote:
> > >Can anyone advise?
> > >
> > >--- adfas asd <chimera_god at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> > What PPD do you use for the printer? The
> > >>
> > >> recommended
> > >>
> > >> > PPD seems to be:
> > >
> >
> >http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Gestetner-DSc38u
> > >
> > >> Actually, at the bottom of that page I clicked on
> > >> Postscript, then used the Select Printer|Download
> > >> for
> > >> the Gestetner DSc38u (the exact model we have),
> > and
> > >> downloaded that PPD.  It installed fine, and I
> > can
> > >> print other file formats, etc, but not pdf.
> > >>
> >
> > Please understand that while pdf may have a few
> > roots in postscript, both
> > of which are freely available Adobe language
> > specifications, they are not
> > interchangeable by any stretch of the imagination.
> > Postscript is 100%
> > in-lined code that allows dictionaries to be used
> > for canned procedures.
> > pdf OTOH, is a totally random access anyplace in the
> > file, language.
> >
> > So what you might have to do is filter the pdf
> > through a pdf2ps or pdftops
> > utility of some sort before you feed it on to that
> > printer.  From looking
> > at the manpages here, it appears that pdftops is the
> > more capable and
> > tuneable utility of the two.
> >
> > Try 'man pdftops' for how to run it.  I see that the
> > pdf2ps is just a
> > front end to ghostscript itself, and subject to
> > whatever limitations your
> > local build of ghostscript may have, and some
> > versions have had the pdf
> > code excised because there are other means of doing
> > that conversion, such
> > as xpdf and acroread.  I personally consider this a
> > ghostscript
> > regression, but I'm not the maintainer. The one size
> > fits all is not the
> > *nix way of doing things, so as long as it works,
> > and it *usually* does
> > (acroread has some output ordering problems with
> > bigger source pdf's if
> > you tell it reverse order) so we do eventually get
> > the job done and
> > looking good on the dead tree medium.
> >
> > Since AFAIK, acroread, when displaying a pdf,
> > outputs postscript when
> > asked to print the file, that is what I would use,
> > and the ps interpreter
> > in the printer should be able to handle that.  But
> > note that whats in the
> > printer for an interpreter may not have been walked
> > around in to bring it
> > up to the latest ps abilities in the last 15+ years
> > (we had lots of that
> > sort of trouble with a Fiery at the tv station, with
> > it getting a tummy
> > ache and wasting lots of paper unless we restricted
> > it to less than 20
> > pages at a time, its a highly rated by non technical
> > office dummies who
> > don't know any better POS IMO), so you may have to
> > tell acroread to not
> > use anything above level 2 in its output, and to
> > pass the fonts on to the
> > printer in its downloads.  That is somewhat
> > configurable on the print
> > dialog screens acroread shows you.
> >
> > I don't know if this is any help or not, hopefully
> > it is.  But that
> > printer is one that probably no one here is familiar
> > with, so my reply
> > might be a way out allowing you to make some
> > progress.
> >
> > >> > And, are you usre the printer is set up to use
> > the
> > >> > correct media size for
> > >> > your PDFs? The recommended PPD sets the printer
> > to
> > >> > ask for operator
> > >> > intervention in case of media size mismatch (or
> > >> > otherwise generate a
> > >> > configuration error). Is the printer configured
> > to
> > >> > print an error page
> > >> > in case or error conditions?
> > >>
> > >> I don't know.  In the printer's settings it
> > >> correctly
> > >> describes what's in the trays, being 8.5"x11".
> > It
> > >> never sees anything coming in when I send a pdf,
> > as
> > >> it
> > >> doesn't even wake up from sleep.  It does wake up
> > >> when
> > >> I send other file formats though.
> > >>
> > >> > PS: with only such vague information you
> > provided
> > >>
> > >> so
> > >>
> > >> > far it is hardly possible
> > >> > to give reasonable advice.
> > >>
> > >> I'm sorry, but I've described all the details in
> > >> prior
> > >> emails with this same subject, and I thought
> > people
> > >> had seen it.
> >
> > That was in fact, pretty sparse unless one is "use
> > it everyday familiar
> > with that hardware".  You apparently are the only
> > expert in that
> > particular venue.  I can guess, and think of
> > scenarios that might help,
> > but I can't tell you to raise the cover and switch
> > sw5 of an 8 position
> > dip switch located on the 2nd card to the other
> > position.  I don't even
> > know if it has such a switch, let alone the proper
> > positioning if it did
> > have it.  That would be pure, 200000% serendipity on
> > my part.  So we
> > guess and surmise & make up stories about what we do
> > know a little bit
> > about that might help you.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of
> > liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
> > order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
> > 		-- Will Harvey
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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