[cups.general] Kde and gnome-print make Samba-printing fail onXerox Phaser 6350

[Helge Blischke]

Lukas Thiemeier wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> I'm running Cups 1.3 and Samba 3.0.23c on Scientific Linux 5.
> I have several HP and Xerox printers installed and running without major 
> problems. One of the Xerox printers is a Phaser 6350DX. I've installed 
> the latest Xerox-drivers for WinXP in samba, and used this drivers ppd 
> to set up the Printer in cups. Both, Windows and Linux printing work fine.
> Here comes the Problem:
> When printing Ascii from a Kde or Gnome Desktop, the texttops is not 
> used because gnome-print generates the postscript code. This works fine, 
> but AFTER printing from Kde or Gnome, It is not possible to print from a 
> Windows Client on this printer. The Bannerpage is printed correctly, but 
> afterwards a error message is printed instead of the printfile. The 
> error Message depends on the Desktop I used, but is always the same for 
> each Desktop:
> 
> KDE:
> 
> ERROR: stackunderflow
> OFFENDING COMMAND: exch
> STACK:
> \h
> 
> and for Gnome:
> 
> ERROR: typecheck
> OFFNEDING COMMAND: setdash
> STACK:
> 21690
> \lucas
> 
> I repeat: The bannerpage is printed correctly, and there are no problems 
> printing from linux. To make Windows users able to print again, I have 
> to restart the printer. After restarting, Windows clients are able to 
> print again, until somebody prints from Kde or Gnome.
> I already tried a different Driver for Windows and a alternate ppd for 
> linux, without success.
> The problem also occurs, if I disable raw-printing from Windows, so that 
> the data is processed by pstops before it is printed.
> 
> Im not 100% sure, but I think this problem did not occur before updating 
> to Cups version 1.3.
> I will set up an alternate Cups server with cups 1.2.4 (the version I 
> used before) to verify this.
> 
> Has anyone an idea what to do?
> I would be happy, if only I knew weather this is a Windows, Gnome, Kde 
> or Cups problem.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Lukas
> 
> 
> PS: I did not attach logs, because this error can not be seen in the 
> logs, even with a high debugevel.
> 

You should try to intercept the PostScript file generated by your KDE and/or Gnome
desktop, I suspect the PS generator involved initialtes some permanent
changes to the PS interpreter. Please post a sample file.

Helge

PS: Does the issue go away if you power cycle the printer?

-- 
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org