Problems with printing
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Wed Jun 15 09:08:21 UTC 2005
>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Apprich <a.apprich at science-computing.de> writes:
Alexander> Hi Colin,
Alexander> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I noticed this problem last week, but I thought I'd wait until
>> upgrading to FC4 to look afresh at it. Having upgraded, I
>> renamed the two .rpmnew files in /etc/cupsd to remove the
>> .rpmnew (thus forcing reconfiguration of cups). So when I went
>> into the printer manager, it asked me if I wanted to configure.
>> I configured the printer (a postscript printer), and was able
>> to print a couple of test pages OK. But whn I try from
>> firefox, or from the command line using lpr, the form feed
>> light on the printer flashes, indicating something is being
>> sent to the printer, but then stops, and no attempt is made to
>> print the page. I tried editing the driver options on the
>> printer (I ticked the Send Form-Feed box), but this makes no
>> difference.
Alexander> just a wild guess, but is the paper format correct??
Alexander> I've seen similar behaviour when printing letter size
Alexander> to a DinA4 printer and the other way around...
Looks like it - it's set to A4, which is correct, and the test pages
come out looking fine.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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