Re: [opensuse] Printing Failure (SOLVED)

-------- Original Message --------
From: Verner Kjærsgaard <vk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue 14 Aug 2007 11:02:25 PM EST

Tirsdag 14 august 2007 14:05 skrev Dave Barton:
I recently did a fresh 10.2 install. Initially the printer setup went
with any problems and printing from any app worked fine. For the last
couple of days I have not been able to get any of my 5 usb printers to
work.

I have tried uninstalling cups, deleting previous cups configurations
and reinstalling to no avail. YaST correctly identifies the printers and
selects the appropriate drivers, but the test function produces nothing.
Sending a file to a print queue from any app (eg. kate) show up in KDE's
print manager as "processing", but the process never finishes. No errors
are displayed during either the setup test or normal printing.

I have ruled out hardware issues, because other usb devices (scanners,
ext hdd, cameras, etc.) work fine under Linux and all printers work
perfectly under Windows on this box.

Am I missing something obvious here, or is there a cups issue with 10.2
that I should know about?

Any pointers or suggestions would be welcome.

TIA

Dave


- create a CUPS admin, use (as root) " lppasswd -a -g sys root "
- check the syntax of lppasswd with "man lppasswd" before you go ahead, I'm
not sure I remember that one correctly.

Then open your browser, goto http://localhost:631 and select printers. See if
it's red or green and take appropriate action.

OK! I am either stubborn or stupid (maybe both), but after a 4th cups
uninstall + reinstall, I was able get into cups administration. Still
not able to print, but a different error message (postscript error).
Checked a test ps file with ghostview and got the following error:
"CRIT: rangecheck in get Operand stack:
/usr/local/share/fonts/marlett.ttf"
Deleted the font file, updated ghostscript configuration and all
printers now working perfectly.

I now realize the original printing problem started after I added some
fonts from the Windows partition.

Thanks to all who offered advice.

Dave

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