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

[Fernando V. Molina]

I tried several times but ... error_log is empty. Tried restarting cups, 
turning debug logging off and on again, but no output at all. The list 
of completed jobs shows all the attempts as complete.

El 2015-08-24 16:05, Helge Blischke escribió:
> execute
> cupsctl —debug-logging
> print a file which shows the issue
> execute
> grep 'Job xxx‘ /var/log/cups/error_log > some_tempfile
> post the contents of „some_tempfile“ (be aware that this list throws 
> mail
> attachments into a black hole, so copy and paste).
> 
> From the log data I possibly can guess what might be the reason.
> 
> Helge
> 
>> Am 24.08.2015 um 20:54 schrieb Fernando V. Molina 
>> <fmolina at qi.fcen.uba.ar>:
>> 
>> Thanks Helge,
>> 
>> I have ghostscript 9.14, and also installed ghostPCL 9.07 just in 
>> case, but no luck. I can send pdf to the printer, they show up in the 
>> queue for a moment and go away (perhaps too fast), 
>> system-config-printer status reads "Ready - waiting for printer to 
>> finish", and in the printer itself I find "error in printing data" in 
>> the error list, and no ouput at all.
>> 
>> What else can I try?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> El 2015-08-24 13:11, Helge Blischke escribió:
>>> 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 outdated linux version) and qpdfview without success .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 
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