Bug#335483: I can confirm this, well sort of
Hello,
I can confirm this behaviour, well sort of:
When I use "Test Printer" in the printer setup dialog from KDE-Print I
usually get only part of the page. Sometimes almost the whole page,
sometimes only the first few printer head "lines".
But now I said I will accept this anyway and completed setting up the
printer. Then I printed a test page from KDE control center and it worked
nicely. Then I printed a two page route plan which also worked nicely.
Both jobs were completed successfully.
On this last try - after fiddling around with it for an hour or so - I
used "parallel:/dev/lp0" instead of "epson:/dev/lp0" as printer device
URI however. But even with that URI the initial test page during printer
setup dialog was not completed.
Andreas, could you try setting up the printer regardless of whether the
initial test page completed successfully anyway? Maybe this helps.
I am using the latest of everything:
root@deepdance:~ -> dpkg -l | grep -e cupsys
ii cupsys 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - server
ii cupsys-bsd 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cupsys-client 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprin 4.3.99+cvs20060521-4 printer drivers for
CUPS
ii libcupsys2 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - libs
ii libcupsys2-dev 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - development files
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing
System(tm) - dummy libs for transition
root@deepdance:~ -> dpkg -l | grep -e gutenprint
ii gutenprint-doc 4.3.99+cvs20050901-1 users' guide for
Gutenprint and CUPS
ii gutenprint-locales 4.3.99+cvs20060521-4 locale data files for
Gutenprint
ii libgutenprint2 4.3.99+cvs20060521-4 runtime for the
Gutenprint printer driver library
ii libgutenprintui2-1 4.3.99+cvs20060521-4 runtime for the
Gutenprint printer driver user interface libra
root@deepdance:~ -> dpkg -l | grep -e kdeprint
ii kdeprint 3.5.3-1 print system for KDE
kdeprint 3.5.3-1 might be needed cause kdeprint from KDE 3.5.2 uses some
inofficial CUPS calls that may not be supported anymore in CUPS 1.2.1.
I am using an IBM ThinkPad T23 connected to a portreplicator with paralell
port set to ECP/EPP mode. I am using an Epson Stylus 600 too.
I have nothing more to print right now. I will report back when I find any
problems again. Please tell me when you need any logs or whatever.
Would be nice to find out what causes the incomplete test pages during
printer setup - cause it is quite irritating. After setup the printer now
worked fine here. But I do not yet know at all whether it is at all
reproducable. Maybe I did a little thing differently this time without
noticing. Maybe it has to do with the different printer device URI.
One additional thing I did was to purge cupsys-driver-gutenprint and
install it again as I had it once that neither KDEPrint nor CUPS web
interface could find any printer drivers for my epson.
Regards,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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