Re: problem during printing: skipped pages

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@oi.com.br>]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 16:21 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 11/10/2007 03:14 PM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I run etch. I have a Lexmark e210 laser printer. I run cups with the
> > recommended gdi driver installed. The problem is the following:
> > sometimes, when I submit a print job, the light in the printer which
> > blinks during the processing of the job, stops to blink, and remains off
> > during several seconds. When the light restarts to blink, the printer
> > skips pages in the final print output. The more the time light stops to
> > blink, the more the number of pages skipped in the printing job.  It
> > seems that during the "blackout", pages are lost in the printer. What
> > could be going wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for the help
> 
> Any clues in /var/log/cups/ ?

Nothing in error_log related to this problem... The access_log file
corresponding to the last day when the problem occurred follows below...

 localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:47:50 -0200] "GET /ppd/e210.ppd HTTP/1.1"
200 27800 - -
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:49:44 -0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 354
CUPS-Get-Classes successful-ok
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:51:15 -0200] "GET /ppd/e210.ppd HTTP/1.1"
200 27800 - -
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:51:25 -0200] "GET /ppd/e210.ppd HTTP/1.1"
200 27800 - -
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:51:25 -0200] "POST /printers/e210
HTTP/1.1" 200 87357 Print-Job successful-ok
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:57:43 -0200] "GET /ppd/e210.ppd HTTP/1.1"
200 27800 - -
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:57:54 -0200] "GET /ppd/e210.ppd HTTP/1.1"
200 27800 - -
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:57:54 -0200] "POST /printers/e210
HTTP/1.1" 200 132519 Print-Job successful-ok
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:59:17 -0200] "GET /ppd/e210.ppd HTTP/1.1"
200 27800 - -
localhost - - [09/Nov/2007:14:59:17 -0200] "POST /printers/e210
HTTP/1.1" 200 398777 Print-Job successful-ok


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Marcelo Chiapparini
chiappa@oi.com.br