Xerox 3117 Length of the option string that can be passed to, Memory usage, Am trying to print a

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
The N-up setting does not	The N-up feature is achieved through post-processing of
work correctly for some	the PostScript data that is being sent to the printing
of my documents.	system. However, such post-processing can only be
	adequately achieved if the PostScript data conforms to the
	Adobe Document Structing Conventions. Problems may
	arise when using N-up and other features relying on post-
	processing if the document being printed isn’t compliant.
I am using BSD lpr	Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the
(Slackware, Debian, older	length of the option string that can be passed to the
distributions) and some	printing system. As such, if you selected a number of
options chosen in LLPR	different options, the length of the options may be
don’t seem to take effect.	exceeded and some of your choices won’t be passed to the
	programs responsible for implementing them. Try to select
	less options that deviate from the defaults, to save on
	memory usage.
I am trying to print a	Most Unix applications that offer a Landscape orientation
document in Landscape	option in their printing options will generate correct
mode, but it prints	PostScript code that should be printed as is. In that case,
rotated and cropped.	you need to make sure that you leave the LLPR option to
	its default Portrait setting, to avoid unwanted rotations of
	the page that would result in a cropped output.
Some pages come out all	If the data being sent is in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
white (nothing is	format, some earlier versions of CUPS (1.1.10 and before)
printed), and I am using	have a bug preventing them from being processed
CUPS.	correctly. When going through LLPR to print, the Printer
	Package will work around this issue by converting the data
	to regular PostScript. However, if your application
	bypasses LLPR and feeds EPS data to CUPS, the document
	may not print correctly.
I can’t print to a SMB	To be able to configure and use SMB-shared printers (such
(Windows) printer.	as printers shared on a Windows machine), you need to
	have a correct installation of the SAMBA package that
	enables that feature. The “smbclient” command should be
	available and usable on your system.
My application seems to	Most Unix applications will expect a command like the
be frozen while LLPR is	regular “lpr” command to be non-interactive and thus
running.	return immediately. Since LLPR is waiting for user input
	before passing the job on to the print spooler, very often
	the application will wait for the process to return, and thus
	will appear to be frozen (its windows won’t refresh). This is
	normal and the application should resume functioning
	correctly after the user exits LLPR.

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