[Sussex] Sussex Digest, Vol 357, Issue 2

Wed Jan 19 22:46:39 UTC 2011

I use evince on Debian Lenny, with a laserjet 4000TN network printer and
CUPS. I found xpdf refused to print pdf's for some reason.
Hugh

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>    1. Re: PDF file printing problem (Steve Dobson)
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>    3. Re: PDF file printing problem ('Fay Zee')
>    4. Re: PDF file printing problem (Desmond Armstrong)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:02:00 +0000
> From: Steve Dobson <steve at dobbo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] PDF file printing problem
> To: Sussex LUG <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Cc: Gavin Stevens <starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net>
> Message-ID: <4D358138.1020705 at dobbo.org>
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> Hi Gavin
> 
> On 18/01/11 09:57, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> > Happy New Year to everyone.
> >
> Long time no see.
> 
> > I have an annoying problem in that I can't get PDF files to print out.
> > I have a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4000N & I'm running Debian Squeeze.
> > The printer prints many other things with no problem.
> 
> I'm using an old, second-hand, but very reliable HP LaserJet 1200.  It
> is plugged into Debian Lenny systems and handles PDFs not problem, and I
> didn't do anything (that I recall) to configure it.
> 
> > It is connected to two computers via a data switch & is connected using
> > the parallel port.
> 
> I have a simpler configuration.  The print is only plugged in via USB to
> my home office server (Debian Lenny) and CUPS is used to share that
> printer both with the workstation (Debian Squeezy) and netbook (also
> Squeezy).
> 
> A quick Google search turned up this URL
>    http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html
> which details how to use CUPS's IPP protocol under windows.  I only
> mention this as it might be better to host the printer on one system and
> network share it.
> 
> > The second PC is a dual-boot Debian Squeeze/Windows XP & PDF files
> > print out with no problem on Windows XP but will not print out on the
> > Debian installation on the second machine either.
> > 
> > I am rather baffled as to why this is the case & any thoughts would be
> > most welcome.
> 
> My guess is that the Debian printer configuration on the duel boot
> system hasn't got all the software it needs. Gutenprint and Foomatic are
> involved somehow sorting out file formats for printing.  I found under
> Lenny that they just worked.  In the past I have just installed the HP
> Linux Printing and Imaging System (package hplip) and everything has
> worked.  But when I installed my home office server I just selected
> "Print Server" from tasksel(8) and let it install the stuff it wanted.
> 
> Assuming that you haven't selected "Print Server" in tasksel(8) I would
> suggest that you should first remove the printer installation.  Then run
> "tasksel" (as root of course) to install all the printer software and
> then add the printer again.
> 
> If you have installed all the "Print Server" software then it might be
> just be the way you configured the printer in the first place.  I did it
> using CUPS because CUPS had a web based admin app running on port 631 so
> I could configure my printer remotely using a browser.  If you have the
> printer attached to the local machine and CUPS is installed then
> 	http://localhost:631/admin
> 
> At some point it will prompt for a password.  You must use the username
> "root" and you root password on the machine your connecting to.
> 
> In the hope that it helps here is some data from my setup.
> 
> CUPS reports my HP printer configured thus:
> 	Description:	Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1200
> 	Location:	Home Office
> 	Printer Driver:	HP LaserJet 1200 Foomatic/ljet4
> 	Printer State:	idle, accepting jobs, published.
> 	Device URI:	hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1200?serial=00CNBF241411
> 
> And here is a list of the packages installed which include the term
> "print" [any case] someone in the package name or the short description.
> 
> $ dpkg -l  | grep -i print | awk '{print $2}' | sort
> cups
> cups-bsd
> cups-client
> cups-common
> cups-driver-gutenprint
> foo2zjs
> foomatic-db
> foomatic-db-engine
> foomatic-db-gutenprint
> foomatic-db-hpijs
> foomatic-filters
> foomatic-filters-ppds
> hal-cups-utils
> hpijs
> hplip
> hplip-data
> hp-ppd
> ijsgutenprint
> libcups2
> libcupsimage2
> libcupsys2
> libgutenprint2
> libxp6
> openprinting-ppds
> printconf
> python-cupsutils
> python-foomatic
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this is of some help
> Steve
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:24:26 +0000
> From: Dave <davidpipe at tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] PDF file printing problem
> To: Sussex Linux Users Group <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <4D35948A.60806 at tiscali.co.uk>
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> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:57:37 +0000 Gavin Stevens<starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net>  writ
> > Subject: [Sussex] PDF file printing problem
> > To: Sussex LUG<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> >
> >
> > Happy New Year to everyone.
> >
> > I have an annoying problem in that I can't get PDF files to print out.
> > I have a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4000N&  I'm running Debian Squeeze.
> > The printer prints many other things with no problem.
> >
> > It is connected to two computers via a data switch&  is connected using
> > the parallel port.
> >
> > The second PC is a dual-boot Debian Squeeze/Windows XP&  PDF files
> > print out with no problem on Windows XP but will not print out on the
> > Debian installation on the second machine either.
> >
> > I am rather baffled as to why this is the case&  any thoughts would be
> > most welcome.
> A quick Google sh0ws that there have been problems printing PDF files 
> even in Windows.
> 
> You might want to look at the following link - Ubuntu, not Debian 
> Squeeze and relating to an HP Laserjet 1320 but the fix may work - look 
> halfway down for "pastudan's" entry dated February 6th 2010 10:12 PM.
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1330344.html
> 
> Dave P
> 
> -- 
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> rush it." Abby Sciuto
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:06:10 +0000
> From: 'Fay Zee' <sussex at eglug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] PDF file printing problem
> To: 'Sussex LUG' <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Happy New Year to all.
> 
> On 18 January 2011 09:57, Gavin Stevens  wrote:
> > Happy New Year to everyone.
> >
> > I have an annoying problem in that I can't get PDF files to print
> out.
> > I have a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4000N & I'm running Debian
> Squeeze.
> > The printer prints many other things with no problem.
> 
> There are several different programs available in which PDF files can
> be opened, read and printed.
> 
> Examples: Okular (my favourite), Document Viewer, Adobe Reader, even
> GIMP and Krita are appropriate on occasion.
> 
> Which one(s) did you try?
> 
> ?
>  Best Regards,
> Fay
> East Grinstead Linux User Group
> www.eglug.org.uk
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:55:49 +0000
> From: Desmond Armstrong <desmond.armstrong at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] PDF file printing problem
> To: Sussex LUG <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>   On 18/01/11 19:06, 'Fay Zee' wrote:
> > Hi Gavin,
> >
> > > I have an annoying problem in that I can't get PDF files to print out.
> > > I have a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4000N & I'm running Debian Squeeze.
> > > The printer prints many other things with no problem.
> >
> > There are several different programs available in which PDF files can 
> > be opened, read and printed.
> >
> > Examples: Okular (my favourite), Document Viewer, Adobe Reader, even 
> > GIMP and Krita are appropriate on occasion.
> >
> 
> I would add in a problem which I ran into.
> Scribus (excellent package) will not print correctly and the only way 
> round this was to export as pdf and then print from that.
> But, then the pdf was a problem and we had to use Document Viewer and 
> then all was well.
> When researching this problem I found that Scribus was more advanced 
> than the other applications on the Linux platform (?)
> 
> So the question, Gavin, is, how did you generate the pdf?
> 
> 
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