Printer ejects only a blank page

[Paul Conklin]

Best guess?  One way is printing raw and the other is printing via a ppd and transforming the job.  the printer probably doesn't support PostScript and one job is being transformed to PCL while the other is keeping it in postscript.

> I am using Cups 1.5.0 with FreeBSD-8.2/amd64. My printer is set up with
> Cups and prints a test page perfectly.
>
> The problem is if I go to print a document, say from my MUA or Firefox
> and choose the printer from the pop-up menu, only a blank page is
> ejected from the printer. Now, if I choose the "LPR" option the
> document is printed normally. The printer is on a wireless network and
> works fine from my Windows machines. On my FreeBSD machine, I have the
> computer hooked up via cable to the router since there is no driver
> available for the wireless card in the PC.
>
> The Cups' log file indicates that everything printed perfectly, even
> thought it obviously didn't.
>
> I have no idea how to debug this problem. It just doesn't make any
> sense.
>
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> Gerard ✌
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