Re: Fwd: troubles running a printer on Mint17.3 "Rosa"
On Wed 01 Feb 2017 at 09:35:20 +0100, albcares wrote:
> thanks for Ur fast answer. I'll try to do my best to explain.
> I correctly see Optra labelled as "generic" in the printer list. The firs
> print I get is generally good. But if I send another one, it jumps out as
> wide as if it saw only the first quarter up the sheet: wide fonts, wider
> grafics; the white field itself is printed with artefacts like clouds of
> black spots. Each time I want to print beyond one document I must turn off
> - turn on the printer. I supposed that any process remained hanging
> somewhere but I couldn't find out.
Did printing work before you "re-adjusted" CUPS? Try using the USB
and parallel connections to print. Is there a significant difference?
Get yourself a few small PostScript files from different sources.
pdf2ps and Firefox are two ways to produce one. Plug the printer
into a USB port and check the device in /dev/usb (lp0, lp1?). Send a
file directly to the printer with
cat <PS_file> > /dev/usb/lp0
How does that go?
--
Brian.
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