On Tuesday 06 March 2012, you wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > Am 06.03.2012 01:28, schrieb Wolfgang Walter: > > I can also confirm that printing to a kyocera FS-1300D (as a postscript- > > printer) does not work any more. It does not print and hangs instead. > > > > This seems to be due to the postscript file generated from the PDF by > > ghostscript (called by the pdftops cups filter in my case). > > > > To test I tried to print my .bashrc: lp .bashrc > > > > 1. I redirected the final output a file and then sent to the printer by hand: > > printer does not print and hangs. > > > > 2. I modified cupsfilters.convs such that I get the PDF. I then used pdf2ps to > > generate the postscript file. Sent it to the printer: printer does not print > > and hangs. > > > > 3. I used pdftops from poppler-utils to generate the postscript file: Sent it > > to the printer and it works. > > > > 4. I used ps2ps on this postscript file: the generated one does not work and > > printer hangs. > > > > > > I called gs with -sDEVICE=pswrite to genrate a postscript file from the PDF: > > that one worked. > > > > > > The only way I may print using cups with a kyocera FS-1300D as postscript > > printer is by printing to a file as PDF and then using acroread to actually > > print it. > > > > > > Regards > > I tried to follow your explanations but somehow I did not succeed. :) >
I modified /etc/cups/printers.conf such that it prints into a file (DeviceURI file:///tmp/blub). This file I sent do the printer by hand (i.e. to /dev/usb/lp0). In Step 2) I modified /usr/share/cups/mime/cupsfilters.convs such that cups does not do the last step (generating a postscript file from the PDF by pdftops filter). So /tmp/blub is now a PDF and I can see if pdf2ps is the problem: pdf2ps /tmp/blub bla.ps cat bla.ps > /dev/usb/lp0 As I said: does not work. But /usr/bin/pdftops /tmp/blub bla.ps cat bla.ps > /dev/usb/lp0 works (/usr/bin/pdftops is from packet poppler-utils). > Anyway, did you try to set the printer to use a generic Postscript PPD > as outlined here in this report before? Yes. I did this with Kyocera's PPD and with the generic postscript. No change. If I send the postscript which is generated by KDE or chromium or firefox or a2ps ... directly to the printer it works (either as above or via a raw- printer in cups). Regards, -- Wolfgang Walter Studentenwerk München Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org