Re: Printing in Jessie

[Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:00:01 +0100, Frank Miles wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:50:01 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 
>> On 12/17/13, Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>> I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie.
>> 
>>> Any insights as to where I should look?  Is this something that
>>> jessie is doing to everyone, or is my configuration strangely mangled?
>> 
>> Have you tried removing and re-adding the printer again (or simply add
>> new printer with a new id/name for the printer)?
>> 
>> Are you using gtklp,system-config-printer or some kde thing or something else?
> 
> I've been using cups directly as previously described, not through any
> other interface.
> 
> The good news is that in implementing your first suggestion I realized that
> I'd always been using the "recommended" Foomatic-Postscript driver in cups.
> I noticed that there was a gutenprint driver for this printer - and it _works_
> with that driver!  So it seems as though the Foomatic driver is broken, at 
> least on this system.
> 
> So thanks, Zenaan, for your suggestion - it led me to a reasonable solution!
> 
>    -Frank

Well, spoke too soon.  Evince is now causing the printer to emit many pages,
each with a single line of gibberish - so its control is not yet right.  Well
at least I have reason to suspect the cups driver, not some more obscure part
of the system.
    -F