Bug#849951: cups-filters: Printing fails sometimes with ERROR: typecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: know

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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Hello Kim. Thank you for your report.


On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 16:44:18 +0100, Kim d'Audretsch wrote:

> Printing intermittenly fails with the following postscript error:
> "ERROR: typecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: know" I've found the following
> Ubuntu bug report which also contains a temporary fix for this issue:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/998087 
> 
> The issue is fixed by giving the following command as root: lpadmin -p
> hp_m506x -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops 
> 
> In Wheezy (oldstable) this issue did not exist, and also in an older
> Ubuntu version.  I figured this bug made it back again into this
> package.

The bug is actually in the printer firmware, over which Debian has no
control. Please follow the advice given by Till.

Have you experienced this problem recently? Which renderer are you
using?

Cheers,

-- 
Brian.