Problem

Possible Cause and Solution

 

 

I am using BSD lpr

Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the length

(Slackware, Debian, older

of the option string that can be passed to the printing system.

distributions) and some

As such, if you selected a number of different options, the

options chosen in LLPR

length of the options may be exceeded and some of your

don’t seem to take effect.

choices won’t be passed to the programmes 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 PostScript

mode, but it prints rotated

code that should be printed as is. In that case, you need to

and cropped.

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 printed),

format, some earlier versions of CUPS (1.1.10 and before)

and I am using CUPS.

have a bug preventing them from being processed 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 as

(Windows) printer.

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 be

Most Unix applications will expect a command like the regular

frozen while LLPR is

“lpr” command to be non-interactive and thus return

running.

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.

 

 

How do I specify the IP

It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialogue of the

address of my SMB server?

configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing system.

 

Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn’t allow to specify the IP

 

address of SMB printers, so you will have to be able to browse

 

the resource with Samba in order to be able to print.

 

 

Some documents come out

Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with

as white pages when

Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have some known

printing.

bugs when processing the PostScript output from some

 

applications. Try upgrading to the latest version of CUPS (at

 

least 1.1.14). Some RPM packages for most popular

 

distributions are provided as a convenience with this Linux

 

Printing Package.

 

 

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