[cups] Problem printing in a Ricof aficio 3025 PCL printer

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Mon Aug 24 09:11:11 PDT 2015


Make sure that (a recent enough) version of Ghostscript is installed. According to the PPD settings
Ghostscript’s pxlmono device is used for rendering both PostScript and PDF.

Helge

> Am 24.08.2015 um 17:45 schrieb Fernando V. Molina <fmolina at qi.fcen.uba.ar>:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I got into a strange problem trying to print in a Ricoh Aficio 3025 PCL/PXL printer (no PS support) from some linux distros. This is a common departmental network printer (I work in a university) accessed through socket://x.y.z.t; I was working until recently with Scientific Linux (SL, a rebuilding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 6.5, with cups 1.4.2, printing more or less well, except some (not all) pdf files (the printers.conf amd .ppd files are attached). I upgraded my system to SL 7 (cups 1.6.3) and cannot print pdf at all; I can print test pages, and libreoffice documents, but not .pdf files, no matter which viewer: I tested okular, evince, foxit (an outdated linux version) and qpdfview without success . I set up a spare partition and installed ubuntu 15.04 (cups 2.02), got to print ok with the very same cups files attached; installed mageia 5 (cups 2.03), with the same attached files, but found the same problem: .pdf does not print. People in the department working with windows can print happily. Some people use ubuntu, they are able to print as well. In my machine, for several reasons I want to use SL, or at least Mageia, but this printing problem is a serious drawback for me. I am stuck, if someone can help, that will be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fernando M.<printers.conf><Ricoh-Aficio-3025.ppd>_______________________________________________
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