[Xprint] Xprint and Canon

[Roland Mainz]

"Reinfried O. PETER" wrote:
> 
> Peter Macarthur wrote:
> > --- "Reinfried O. PETER" <Reinfried.O.Peter at tugraz.at>
> > wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote:
> >> > replace
> >> > -- snip --
> >> > *default-printer-resolution: 300
> >> > -- snip --
> >> > with
> >> > -- snip --
> >> > *default-printer-resolution: 600
> >> > -- snip --
> >>
> >> Now it's printing - but only the last page!
> > What is the output of xplsprinters?

Peter:
I am not sure whether "xplsprinters" is really usefull in this case...
:)
 
> # ./xplsprinters
> ./xplsprinters:  no printers found for printer spec "".
> 
> # ./xplsprinters -printer canon
> ./xplsprinters:  no printers found for printer spec "canon".
> 
> ("canon" is one of the printers I've installed via CUPS,
> "lp" is the other one)

Erm... normally the XPSERVERLIST environment variable should be setup.
Which desktop do you use ? OpenWindows, CDE, Gnome, KDE ?

As workaround this should help:
% export XPSERVERLIST="$(/bin/sh /etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist)"

What does "xplsprinters" output then ?

> >> When I print a longer document to the HP printer, it
> >> is
> >> e.g. about 4 pages - when I print it to the Canon, I
> >> get only page 4 - very strange ...
> > Maybe CUPS is now the problem - replacing the SYSV lp
> > with CUPS on Solaris is not recommended - it breaks
> > StarOffice and many other Solaris applications.
> >
> > Can you please run these three tests for us?
> > a1. print to file
> > a2. send that PS file to the printer via /usr/bin/lp
> > a3. how many pages do you get?
> 
> that has been one of my first tests within the last days:
> my HP printer prints 2 pages, the Canon only the last one
> 
> >
> > b1. print to file
> > b2. run ps2ps over the file
> 
> I get an error:
> 
> Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> Operand stack:
>    0   88   (Times-BoldISO)   Times-Bold   Font   Times-Bold   421938
> Times-Bold   --nostringval--   Courier   NimbusMonL-Regu
> (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu   (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1
>   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--
>   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> 4   3   %oparray_pop   5   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> false   1   %stopped_push   8   4   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   5   -1   1   --nostringval--
> %for_neg_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1050/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:206/302(L)--
> --dict:17/17(ro)(G)--   --dict:1050/1417(ro)(G)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 2
> Current file position is 16797
> ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Can you please attach the PostScript job to your reply that we can have
a look at it (gzip'ed or bzip2'ed) ?

> > b3. send the output of ps2ps to /usr/bin/lp
> > b4. how many pages do you get?
> 
> because of the error:
> 1 empty page on each of the printers
> 
> >
> > c1. print using xphelloworld
> > c2. how many pages do you get with it?
> >
> 
> # xphelloworld -printer canon
> xphelloworld:  no printers found for printer spec "canon"
> 
> So maybe i've misconfigurated something?

See above - XPSERVERLIST isn't set... ;-(

----

Bye,
Roland

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