[cups.general] PDFs do not Print

Fri Mar 23 14:11:41 PDT 2007

Well, I guess George has given up on my problem.

--- adfas asd <chimera_god at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Well, I just installed the generic PCL 5e driver,
> and
> it does print pdf's, although the print quality is
> not
> good.  Also the printer is under the impression that
> it's supposed to have thick paper, but I did not
> specify that;  there's no way to specify that in the
> generic PCL5e driver.
> 
> But this proves that there is some difference in how
> the postscript and PCL drivers handle pdf's, since I
> can't print them with the latter driver.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- adfas asd <chimera_god at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- George Liu <george.liu at ussj.ricoh.com> wrote:
> > > OK, so scenario number 1 and 2 works, but number
> 3
> > > doesn't. 
> > > 
> > > Which means most of your printing system works
> > fine,
> > > the problem is
> > > limited to your pdftops filter.
> > > 
> > > Again, check your error_log and see what pdf
> > filter
> > > you are using and
> > > whether it reports any problems. 
> > 
> > OK, I printed the pdf from KPDF with cupsys set to
> > debug, and starting at 'Started backend' I get the
> > errorlog listing at bottom hereto.  Not sure what
> of
> > it is relevant.  But the document never prints.  I
> > can
> > see data going out the network when I print, but
> it
> > is
> > only about a 2 second burst.  Maybe it should be
> > more
> > like 5 or 10 seconds of data, as it is with
> > postscript
> > file.
> > 
> >  
> > > How about manually convert PDF to Postscript
> using
> > > pdf2ps filter and raw
> > > printing the generated Postscript to printer?
> > (Sharp
> > > and Gestetner)?
> > 
> > Yes, again this works fine.
> > 
> > 
> > I [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Started filter
> > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2336) for job
> 642.
> > I [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Started filter
> > /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 2337) for
> job
> > 642.
> > I [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Started backend
> > /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 2338) for job
> 642.
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Discarding unused
> > job-state event...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700]
> > cupsdProcessIPPRequest:
> > 8 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] cupsdCloseClient: 8
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Discarding unused
> > printer-state-changed event...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Discarding unused
> > printer-state-changed event...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Discarding unused
> > printer-state-changed event...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] Discarding unused
> > printer-state-changed event...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] [Job 642] Connected
> > to
> > 10.0.10.91:9100 (IPv4)...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:47 -0700] [Job 642]
> > backendRunLoop(print_fd=0, device_fd=4, use_bc=1)
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] Page =
> > 612x792; 12,12 to 600,780
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > slow_collate=0, slow_duplex=0, slow_order=0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] Before
> > copy_comments - %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> %%Creator:
> > xpdf/pdftops 3.00
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > %%LanguageLevel: 2
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > %%DocumentMedia: plain 612 792 0 () ()
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] %%Pages:
> 1
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642]
> > %%EndComments
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] Before
> > copy_prolog - %%BeginDefaults
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] Before
> > copy_setup - %%BeginSetup
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] Before
> page
> > loop - %%Page: 1 1
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] Copying
> > page
> > 1...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] pagew =
> > 588.0, pagel = 768.0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] bboxw =
> > 612,
> > bboxl = 792
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] PageLeft
> =
> > 12.0, PageRight = 600.0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] PageTop =
> > 780.0, PageBottom = 12.0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:48 -0700] [Job 642] PageWidth
> =
> > 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642]
> > foomatic-rip
> > version $Revision$ running...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Parsing
> PPD
> > file ...
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > ColorSpace
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Option1
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Option5
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Option30
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Option40
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Option50
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Resolution
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > PageSize
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > PageRegion
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > ImageableArea
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > PaperDimension
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > InputSlot
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > LeadingEdge
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Duplex
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > Collate
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > RIPrintMode
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > ColorModel
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > RPSBitsPerPixel
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > RPSRGBcorrect
> > D [12/Mar/2007:16:22:54 -0700] [Job 642] Added
> > option
> > RPSColorRendDict
> 
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