Re: severe printing problem on b&w g3 / sid
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:02:07PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been running Sid on a Blue nad White G3 for the better part of a
> year now, and am finally trying to track down the origin of a severe
> printing problem. I've been unable to solve the problem even by
> taking pretty drastic measures, e.g., removing CUPS and switching to
> pdq or LPRng, upgrading to kernel 2.6.x...
(currently running .4.23, self-rolled, off of the benh kernel line)
>
> I have two printers, both connectedo n USB -- one color dotmatrix
^ er, I mean
laserjet, of
course, my
age is showing
> (canon s520) and one laser printer (brother hl-1440). Both work
> perfectly well with the same hardware connections when the g3 is
> booted up in Macos 9 (not that I do that anymore...). But from linux,
> I have similar problems on both: 'garbage' symbols (hearts, question
> marks, accented letters, and other pictorial images, mostly) that cut
> across the page, and page splitting -- that is, a single page will be
> pritned across two, three, or even four physical pages. Sometimes
> large numbers of sheets of paper will spew out of the printer with
> just a single line of garbage on the top.
>
> As I said, the hardware is fine. I assume, then, that the problem is
> somewhere else:
>
> in the postscript conversion programs? But I use the regular,
> recommended methods for generating postscript (a2ps with lprng, the
> cups filters with cups).
>
> The usb-printer /usb-lp drivers? But surely I'd have heard of a big
> problem like this if other people had it, too?
>
> - something wrong with the underlying usb driver for the g3
> hardware... I suppose that's posible, but again, seems like I would
> haveheard about soething so serious by now...
>
> Anyway, it's a serious issue, and one I'd like to fix. Anyone seen
> anything like this before? Any troublehooting suggestions?
>
> thanks as always,
>
> matt
>
>
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