Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:59:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:27:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> I have noticed that when printing multi-page PDF files from evince on
>> the GNOME desktop, using CUPS under Debian Lenny, I get a blank page
>> after every page.
>
> It does the same when you print with another PDF viewer (i.e., GV)? It
> happens with *any* PDF?
Well, I didn't try them all, but both evince and xpdf do the same thing.
And yes, it seems to be every multi-page PDF file.
>>
>> My printer is an HP PaintJet. This wastes paper and
>> is very annoying. I have searched the Internet, of course, but I did
>> not find any solutions. The closest I found was Debian bug report
>> 316392, but his work-around doesn't work for me. My PPD file already
>> specifies Letter instead of A4 for Page Size. Does anyone know a
>> work-around for this? Surely someone has run across this before.
>
> If you think is a problem of "size detection" try by setting in printing
> page layout tab a zoom scale of 90%, just for testing purposes.
Well, that makes the image slightly smaller, but I still get a blank
page between every printed page.
Further testing leads me to believe that this problem is driver-specific.
When I print to another printer, an IBM Proprinter II, I do not have
this problem. I see that in Lenny the ghostscript pj driver is used
and in Squeeze they have switched to the hplis driver. Perhaps upgrading
to Squeeze may fix the problem. In the meantime, I'm going to do some
experimenting with the ghostscript driver directly and see what I can
see.
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