Bug#827040: cups-filters: Error when printing to Dell 2330dn printer

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

Hello Sam; thank you for your report. I'm not too sure what is going on
here so a bit of futher explanation would be helpful.

On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 14:25:12 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:

> My Dell 2330dn printer outputs an error half way through print jobs from
> Evolution. The output is:

Is the printing taking place directly from the Evolution print dialog?

>     ERROR:
>     invalidaccess
>     OFFENDING COMMAND:
>     copy
>     STACK:
>     --nostringval--
>     --nostringval--
>     --nostringval--
>     8.80119
>     -mark-
>     -mark-
>     -mark-
> 
> Attached is a job that reproduces the error, and the PPD for the printer
> in case that's helpful.

It would appear not beause this a PostScript file and the print dialog
generates a PDF. How are you printing this file? With lp/lpr?

printer-bug-public-repro.ps has

  %%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 919 (ps2write)

so it looks like pdftops was involved in producing it.

> I've tried using lpoptions to set the queue to use pdftops instead of
> gs, but it doesn't help. Although when I look at the generated ps, it
> doesn't seem very different after I set:
> 
>     lpoptions -p dell2330 -o pdftops-renderer=pdftops
> 
> Which resulted in the following ~/.cups/lpoptions:
> 
>     Dest dell2330 pdftops-renderer=pdftops
>     Dest test pdftops-renderer=pdftops psdebug=true
> 
> I believe Gtk's printing code obeys this file, so not sure what I did
> wrong here.

You have a PostScript PPD (there is no *cupsFilters line in it) so
cups-filters does not use pdftops.

Regards,

Brian.