CUPS test page prints, but nothing else will

Colleen cjoseph at mit.edu
Sat Dec 26 11:41:46 PST 2009


A beautiful test page prints to my HP Officejet 3600, but if I try and print from firefox, evolution, or openoffice, pages and pages of incomprehensible gibberish comes out.

Why won't any other applications print, but the test page will???

Here's a log from a failed firefox print:

I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:27 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=16664)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:33 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16667)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16669)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] Adding start banner page "none".
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] Adding end banner page "none".
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] File of type application/postscript queued by "anonymous".
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] Queued on "HP001635530084" by "anonymous".
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 16670)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 16671)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:36 -0500] [Job 4] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/socket (PID 16672)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:38 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16682)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:48 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16683)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:58:58 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16684)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:59:08 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16687)
I [24/Dec/2009:20:59:14 -0500] [Job 4] Completed successfully.
I [24/Dec/2009:20:59:18 -0500] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=16688)


Here's a log from a successful test page print:

I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job ???] Request file type is application/postscript.
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] Adding start banner page "none".
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] Adding end banner page "none".
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] File of type application/postscript queued by "root".
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] Queued on "HP001635530084" by "root".
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 22256)
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 22257)
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:07 -0500] [Job 5] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/socket (PID 22258)
I [24/Dec/2009:21:04:47 -0500] [Job 5] Completed successfully.




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