I am just setting up an F16 system, and attempting to make the printer I have work. It is a Cannon iP1600 attached to my router via USB. I do the setup and specify the URI as "lpd://router/lpUSB0". This is VERY functional on my other machine that is using Fedora 8 (a bit old, but it is functional).

When I attempt to print a test page, the printer is noticeable due to its silence. I do a bit more investigation, and the data sent to the printer (I used TCPDUMP to get the information) is around 176k bytes, and only takes a second to transmit. For reference, I did a similar dump on the working F8 system, and the data is MUCH bigger and it is almost 1.9 Mbytes (an order of magnitude bigger) and takes over 30 seconds to complete (print time).

The problem appears to be that the postscript engine isn't getting (it is installed) to render the page into a form the printer understands. I'm wonder what is going on, as this is a new type of problem to me.

Any clues?