More printing problems!
I upgraded from 13.0 to 13.1 and now I have strange behaviors with the printer. It is an Epson Stylus Photo RX640. It was working well with the vanilla Gutenprint 5.2.2 that came in Slack 13.0. The printer is shared and used from other slackware boxes and a mac.
Upgrade to 13.1 (gutenprint gets to be 5.2.4) ... Now when I print from the machine that has the printer attached I get full black pages, and cups shows errors. The Mac is still able to print well (probably because it is using its own PPD and passing through directly to the printer). I then removed gutenprint, and then removed the 5.2.2 PPDs (that were still in the system). Reinstalled gutenprint from the Slackware 13.1 distro. And the problem persists. The errors I see in /var/log/cups/error_log are: Code:
E [24/Jun/2010:22:18:19 +0100] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" "stopped "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed" " All very strange, but I think this may be a faulty PPD. I am now tempted to go back to gutenprint 5.2.2 to see if that works . Anyone seen this? Fixes? thx |
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Fix - it's an upstream Ghostscript bug, fixed in their svn. Search this forum for the link to the bug report which includes the patch, and re-build Ghostscript. Some have down graded Ghostscript to the 8.7.0 version from 13.0. For some odd reason it only effects this version of Ghostscript and particular models of printers. It is not manufacturer wide (IOW our Epson and Samsung printers work, people with other models, not so lucky) Direct link to the bug report :) http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691203 Hopefully The Team sees this, and investigates it. Seems to pertain to quite a few users. |
Thanks for the tip disturbed1,
I downloaded the patch from the link you provided and applied the patch in the original slackbuild. Upgraded with this patched version and now it works fine. Marking this a solved. |
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