[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #4274: Printing to KonicaMinolta Bizhub C280 freezes printer

[Douglas Kosovic]

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A 3rd option is to try the Linux Adobe Reader (acroread) to generate the
Postscript, since both Ghostscript (gs) and Poppler (pdftops) seem to
crash your printer. Extract from the cups-filters-1.0.29 README:

    1. Selection of the renderer: Ghostscript, Poppler, or Adobe Reader

    Ghostscript has better color management and is generally optimized
    more for printing. Poppler produces a PostScript which is
    compatible with more buggy built-in PostScript interpreters of
    printers and it leads to a somewhat quicker workflow when
    graphical structures of the input PDF has to be turned into
    bitmaps. Adobe Reader is the PDF renderer from Adobe, the ones
    who created PDF and PostScript.

    The selection is done by the "pdftops-renderer" option, setting it
    to "gs", "pdftops", or "acroread":

    Per-job:           lpr -o pdftops-renderer=pdftops ...
    Per-queue default: lpadmin -p printer -o pdftops-renderer-default=gs
    Remove default:    lpadmin -p printer -R pdftops-renderer-default

    By default, pdftops uses Ghostscript if this does not get changed
    at compile time, for example by the Linux distribution vendor.


I'm using a Konica Minolta BizHub C650 which doesn't like pdftops renderer
set to 'gs', but is okay with 'pdftops'. In /etc/cups/printers.conf I have
the following line for the printer :
   Option pdftops-renderer pdftops


Doug

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4274
Version: 1.6.1
Fix Version: Third-party