The guys at cups do not feel responsible for linux issues as documented in https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4715
In the meantime I further tracked it down: - Played around with printer drivers, using Kyocera's PPD, the PPD provided by ubuntu and also gave PPD from http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-amd64/openprinting-ppds-postscript-kyocera_20130319-1lsb3.2_all.deb a try. - Tried to install lsb-printing package with no changes - Opened firefox tab about:config and resetted all user/custom variables which contain string "print" in variable name As all that did not work, I have created at least a test case: How-To-Repeat: - Print web page in firefox with all printing variables in firefox reset - Lookup the spooler file in /var/spool/cups - Try to print it directly with lpr command Test case 1 (works): - Print https://boerse.dab-bank.de/maerkte-kurse/aktien.html in firefox - top shows ghostscript (gs) and foomatic-rip process - The page is printed perfectly - I found a file in /var/spool/cups which I renamed to test1.pdf - Direct printing with works fine with cat test1.pdf | lpr -P fs-1020d -# 1 Test case 2 (does not work): - Print https://www.dab-bank.de/Service/Kontakt/ in firefox - top shows ghostscript (gs) and foomatic-rip process - The printer receives data (status LED) and heats up, but nothing is printed. Printer gets available again. - I found a file in /var/spool/cups which I renamed to test2.pdf - Direct printing also does not work with cat test2.pdf | lpr -P fs-1020d -# 1 Basically this could mean that my printer FS-1020d does not accept the content of test2.pdf while it most of the time works as shown with test1.pdf ** Attachment added: "test1.pdf and test2.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/802942/+attachment/4463487/+files/test-pdfs.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/802942 Title: printing PDFs (and other complex documents) from GTK applications fails Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello, I'm discovering a bug when printing complex PDFs or other complex documents from GTK applications. Printing complex PDFs from evince, or sometimes even printing comples webpages from firefox result in one error page being printed instead of the document content: +-------------------------+ | ERROR NAME; | | undefined | | COMMAND; | | Q | | OPERAND STACK; | +-------------------------+ My printer is a Brother HL 5270DN. It doesn't matter whether the printer is connected via USB or as network printer. In both cases the described bug does happen. The PPD I use is "Brother HL-5270DN BR- Script3", similar to the one at http://www.openprinting.org/download/PPD/Brother/BR5270_2_GPL.ppd I discovered this bug in up-to-date Debian unstable for several years already. Now I switched one of my laptops to Ubuntu Natty (fresh installation), and unfortunately discovered the same bug there as well. I'm pretty sure that this bug is related to bug #419143, and not really in CUPS, but rather in some library (poppler or cairo) used by GTK applications. The same PDFs that produce the described error in evince, print fine in okular. I attach an example PDF that doesn't print in evince, but prints fine in okular. It's sufficient to (try to) print page 1 of the document. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-0.5~20110427-generic 2.6.39-rc5 Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 CupsErrorLog: Date: Tue Jun 28 13:13:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426) Lpstat: device for Brother-HL-5270DN: lpd://192.168.1.75/PASSTHRU MachineType: LENOVO 4180W1H Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: Brother-HL-5270DN: Brother HL-5270DN BR-Script3 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de:en LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.39-0-generic root=/dev/mapper/vgsys-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 83ET56WW (1.26 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4180W1H dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr83ET56WW(1.26):bd05/13/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4180W1H:pvrThinkPadT420:rvnLENOVO:rn4180W1H:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4180W1H dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T420 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/802942/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
