Bug#716843: cups: CUPS doesn't properly initialize Lexmark E238

[Mark Small <msmall@eastlink.ca>]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.3-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading my print server to Wheezy, I've had a lot of problems printing
on my Lexmark E238 laser printer. 

 When printing from a linux client, it will 
sometimes print just the top corner zoomed to fill the whole page.  This 
happens roughly half of the time, and only on the first page of a multi page 
print job. Otherwise it prints properly.  I'm using the pcl5 driver.
(Generic PCL 5 Printer Foomatic/ljet3).


 If I print from a Windows box using direct/raw access (with the 
Lexmark driver specifically for this printer), I get page after page of 
gobbledegook (probably PCL6 source code.)

If I set a windows machine to print using a generic postscript driver, it acts
the same as a linux client.  It sometimes works, but sometimes prints the
first page zoomed way in.


Given the symptoms, it seems to me that the printer isn't being properly 
initialized.  It doesn't recognise PCL6, and sometimes gets the resolution 
wrong using PCL 5.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I'd really like to have reliable printing again 
before Jessie comes out.

Mark


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2
ii  cups-client            1.5.3-5
ii  cups-common            1.5.3-5
ii  cups-filters           1.0.18-2.1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.3-5
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  dpkg                   1.16.10
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-6.3
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.31-2
ii  libc-bin               2.13-38
ii  libc6                  2.13-38
ii  libcups2               1.5.3-5
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.3-5
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.3-5
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.3-5
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.3-5
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-7
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
pn  libldap-2.4-2          <none>
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu2
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.7.2-5
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.11-1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  poppler-utils          0.18.4-6
ii  procps                 1:3.3.3-3
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.32

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.31-2
ii  colord                     0.1.21-1
ii  foomatic-filters           4.0.17-1
ii  ghostscript-cups           9.05~dfsg-6.3
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint  5.2.9-1

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd               1.5.3-5
pn  cups-pdf               <none>
ii  foomatic-db            20120523-1
ii  hplip                  3.12.6-3.1
ii  printer-driver-hpcups  3.12.6-3.1
ii  smbclient              2:3.6.6-6
ii  udev                   175-7.2

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, ipp14, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd