Problems printing to remote (LPR) printer

[Helge Blischke]

Tom Watson wrote:

> I have a remote printer attached to my nice router.  It has a nice print
> queue, and I have been able to print to it successfully using an older
> version of CPUP (v1.1.x it says on the test page).  The printer is a
> Cannon ip1600, and the URI that I use is "lpr://router/lpUSB0".  I have
> done a bit of investigation, and using TCPDUMP I was able to see that the
> "good" instance (the actual system is a Fedora 8 Linux box) emits about
> 1.9 Mbytes of data to the printer.  The "not working" instance (CUPS 1.5
> from Fedora 16) emits around 176kbytes, and the printer swallows the data
> in about 1 second or so, with no output to the printer.
> 
> Something is not right in my neighborhood, as this DOES work with an
> earlier instance of CUPS.  The only thing that I think that is happening
> is that somehow the driver doesn't go through the Postscript (Ghostscript)
> interpreter to get the raster data for the printer.
> 
> Thanks for the assistance.

Can you please supply an error_log (log level debug) for a test print of 
both the cups 1.1.x and cups 1.5.0 system?

Helge