[cups.general] Output being sent to printer in PS format instead of raster

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Nov 9 05:42:56 PST 2008


On Sunday 09 November 2008, ulrich.lauther at t-online.de wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:15:43PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 08 November 2008, ulrich.lauther at t-online.de wrote:
>> >On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:18:31PM -0800, Tim Keenan wrote:
>> >> Page printed by printer starts with %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%BoundingBox...
>> >
>> >I have the same problem with a Brother_DCP-7010, CUPS 1.3.5,
>> >Brother_DCP-7010_USB_1.ppd.
>> >
>> >But ONLY with groff-generated PostScript files. Files from e.g. a2ps
>> > print o.k.
>> >
>> >groff-generated files print fine, if first converted to pdf.
>> >
>> >So what's wrong with these ps-files?
>>
>> Probably nothing, other than you might be sending them with the -oraw
>> option, which bypasses ghostscript?
>
>not that I know. I use just "lpr name.ps".
>This works fine with PostScript-files, unless they have been  generated
>by groff.
>There must be a mechanism somewhere that tries to distinguish between
>plain text and PostScript and this mechanism seems to fail with
>groff-generated files - but I cannot find out why.
>
>Best, ulrich
>
One other item that may be of help, brother maintains linux drivers for the 
majority of their products, and I've had great results using one of their 
economy lasers using the driver they suggested when I emailed them.  I 
downloaded it from their web site, and it incorporates itself into cups 
flawlessly.

I'm assuming (oh oh, there is THAT word again) of course that you have sent 
your browser to <http://localhost:631/printers>, and they are all defined and 
tested ok there.  That is my browsers (FF) 'home' page here.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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