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Re: Fwd: troubles running a printer on Mint17.3 "Rosa"



2017-02-01 12:27 GMT+01:00 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>:
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?

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Brian.

well, I checked as you Brian had adviced me. Firstly, I have no parallel port on my tiny motherboard. Then my System identifies the printer after "sudo lsusb" as Lexmark Optra E312, which could be correct. And indeed I remember that before smashing CUPS I sometimes had the same problem.
the .ps files are printed via command-line.
furthermore, as I am not exactly a proper device-tester, I changed the "driver" from *PCL-5 Printer CUPS+Gutenprint* to a *PCL-5 Printer Foomatic* both provided by the OS itself. And it appears running better. I want to go on printing a bit more before crowing.
What do You think? could the origin of the mistakes be in one of these "drivers"? Has anyone the same or similar printer?


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