Xerox phaser 8860

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Sep 11 08:49:25 PDT 2009


Jeremy wrote:

> I have a Xerox phaser 8860.
> I'm using the manufacture-supplied xrx8860.ppd
> 
> However, there seem to be some bugs with this ppd.
> A really annoying bug is that I cannot print multiple copies of documents.
> The number of copies to be printed is ignored.
> I have tried printing pdf documents with okular and with acroread.
> In both cases the number of copies is ignored.
> However, if I print instead to my Samsung ML-2552W, the requested number
> of copies is printed, which would seem to rule out some bug with cups/kde.
> 
> $cupstestppd -r -v /usr/share/ppd/xrx8860.ppd
> /usr/share/ppd/xrx8860.ppd:
>     DETAILED CONFORMANCE TEST RESULTS
>         PASS    DefaultImageableArea
>         PASS    DefaultPaperDimension
>         PASS    DefaultInstalledMemory
>         PASS    DefaultXRXOptionTrays
>         PASS    DefaultXRXOptionHD
>         PASS    DefaultPageSize
>         PASS    DefaultPageRegion
>         PASS    DefaultInputSlot
>         PASS    DefaultDuplex
>         PASS    DefaultOutputMode
>         PASS    DefaultXRXColor
>         PASS    DefaultXRXGrayline
>         PASS    DefaultXRXImageSmoothing
>         PASS    DefaultXRXUsePrinterHalftones
>         PASS    DefaultXRXPrintSettingsOnPage
>         PASS    DefaultXRXColorAccessX000
>         PASS    DefaultXRXColorAccess0X00
>         PASS    DefaultXRXColorAccess00X0
>         PASS    DefaultXRXColorAccess000X
>         PASS    DefaultMediaType
>         PASS    DefaultCollate
>         PASS    DefaultXRXMismatch
>         PASS    DefaultXRXSlipSheetSource
>         PASS    DefaultSlipsheet
>         PASS    DefaultXRXCoverPageSource
>         PASS    DefaultXRXCoverPage
>         PASS    DefaultXRXJobType
>         PASS    DefaultXRXPasswordX000
>         PASS    DefaultXRXPassword0X00
>         PASS    DefaultXRXPassword00X0
>         PASS    DefaultXRXPassword000X
>         PASS    DefaultXRXUSERNameX00
>         PASS    DefaultXRXUSERName0X0
>         PASS    DefaultXRXUSERName00X
>         PASS    FileVersion
>         PASS    FormatVersion
>         PASS    LanguageEncoding
>         PASS    LanguageVersion
>         PASS    Manufacturer
>         PASS    ModelName
>         PASS    NickName
>         PASS    PageSize
>         PASS    PageRegion
>         PASS    PCFileName
>         PASS    Product
>         PASS    PSVersion
>         PASS    ShortNickName
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXJobType choice name Normal!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword000X choice name nnn0!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword000X choice name nnn2!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword000X choice name nnn4!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword000X choice name nnn6!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword000X choice name nnn8!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword00X0 choice name nn0n!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword00X0 choice name nn2n!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword00X0 choice name nn4n!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword00X0 choice name nn6n!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword00X0 choice name nn8n!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword0X00 choice name n0nn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword0X00 choice name n2nn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword0X00 choice name n4nn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword0X00 choice name n6nn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPassword0X00 choice name n8nn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPasswordX000 choice name 0nnn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPasswordX000 choice name 2nnn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPasswordX000 choice name 4nnn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPasswordX000 choice name 6nnn!
>       **FAIL**  Multiple occurrences of XRXPasswordX000 choice name 8nnn!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalPrint in UIConstraint
>       "*InputSlot MF *XRXJobType PersonalPrint"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint in
>       UIConstraint "*InputSlot MF *XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PrintWith in UIConstraint
>       "*InputSlot MF *XRXJobType PrintWith"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalPrint in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXJobType PersonalPrint *InputSlot MF"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalPrint in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXJobType PersonalPrint *XRXOptionHD False"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint in
>       UIConstraint "*XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint *InputSlot MF"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint in
>       UIConstraint "*XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint *XRXOptionHD False"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PrintWith in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXJobType PrintWith *InputSlot MF"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PrintWith in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXJobType PrintWith *XRXOptionHD False"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing option XRXLastPageSource in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXLastPageSource Tray3 *XRXOptionTrays None"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing option XRXLastPageSource in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXLastPageSource Tray4 *XRXOptionTrays None"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing option XRXLastPageSource in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXLastPageSource Tray4 *XRXOptionTrays OneExtraTray"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalPrint in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXOptionHD False *XRXJobType PersonalPrint"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint in
>       UIConstraint "*XRXOptionHD False *XRXJobType PersonalSavedPrint"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing choice *XRXJobType PrintWith in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXOptionHD False *XRXJobType PrintWith"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing option XRXLastPageSource in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXOptionTrays None *XRXLastPageSource Tray3"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing option XRXLastPageSource in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXOptionTrays None *XRXLastPageSource Tray4"!
>       **FAIL**  Missing option XRXLastPageSource in UIConstraint
>       "*XRXOptionTrays OneExtraTray *XRXLastPageSource Tray4"!
>         WARN    Line 959 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1208 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1210 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1215 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1217 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1222 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1224 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1229 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1231 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1236 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1238 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1243 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1245 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1250 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1252 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1257 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1259 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1264 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1266 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1271 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1273 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Line 1357 only contains whitespace!
>         WARN    Non-Windows PPD files should use lines ending with only
>         LF, not CR LF!
>         WARN    DefaultGuaranteedMaxSeparations has no corresponding
>         options!
>         WARN    XRXColor shares a common prefix with XRXColorAccessX000
>                 REF: Page 15, section 3.2.
>         WARN    XRXColor shares a common prefix with XRXColorAccess0X00
>                 REF: Page 15, section 3.2.
>         WARN    XRXColor shares a common prefix with XRXColorAccess00X0
>                 REF: Page 15, section 3.2.
>         WARN    XRXColor shares a common prefix with XRXColorAccess000X
>                 REF: Page 15, section 3.2.
>         WARN    XRXCoverPage shares a common prefix with
>         XRXCoverPageSource
>                 REF: Page 15, section 3.2.
>     39 ERRORS FOUND
> 
> 
> 
> Is this problem fixable?
> Thanks

Is your printer driven by the IPP backend? If yes, try another one which is 
supported by the printer; it may be that in the IPP implementation of the
printer the copy count in the IPP request (usually 1 set by CUPS as the 
default) takes precedence over the /NumCopies value in the PS job.

Helge






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