Common Windows problems

CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

 

 

“File in Use”

Exit all software applications. Remove all

message appears

software from the StartUp Group, then restart

during installation.

Windows. Reinstall the printer driver.

 

 

“General Protection

Close all other applications, reboot Windows

Fault”, “Exception

and try printing again.

OE”, “Spool32”, or

 

“Illegal Operation”

 

messages appear.

 

“Fail To Print”, “A

These messages may appear during printing.

printer timeout error

Just keep waiting until the machine finishes

occurred.” messages

printing. If the message appears in ready mode

appear.

or after printing has been completed, check the

connection and/or whether an error has

 

 

occurred.

 

 

Refer to the Microsoft Windows documentation that came with your computer for further information on Windows error messages.

Common Linux problems

CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

 

 

The machine does

• Check if the printer driver is installed in your

not print.

system. Open Unified Driver Configurator

 

and switch to the Printers tab in Printers

 

configuration window to look at the list of

 

available printers. Make sure that your

 

machine is displayed on the list. If not,

 

please, invoke Add new printer wizard to set

 

up your device.

 

• Check if the printer is started. Open Printers

 

configuration and select your machine on the

 

printers list. Look at the description in the

 

Selected printer pane. If its status contains

 

“(stopped)” string, please, press the Start

 

button. After that normal operation of the

 

printer should be restored. The "stopped"

 

status might be activated when some

 

problems in printing occurred.

 

• Check if your application has special print

 

option such as “-oraw”. If “-oraw” is specified

 

in the command line parameter then remove

 

it to print properly. For Gimp front-end, select

 

“print” -> “Setup printer” and edit command

 

line parameter in the command item.

Some color images

This is a known bug in Ghostscript (until GNU

come out all black.

Ghostscript version 7.05) when the base color

 

space of the document is indexed color space

 

and it is converted through CIE color space.

 

Because Postscript uses CIE color space for

 

Color Matching System, you should upgrade

 

Ghostscript on your system to at least GNU

 

Ghostscript version 7.06 or later. You can find

 

recent Ghostscript versions at

 

www.ghostscript.com.

 

 

CONDITION

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

 

 

Some color images

This is a known bug in Ghostscript (until GNU

come out in

Ghostscript version 7.xx) when the base color

unexpected color.

space of the document is indexed RGB color

 

space and it is converted through CIE color

 

space. Because Postscript uses CIE color

 

space for Color Matching System, you should

 

upgrade Ghostscript on your system to at least

 

GNU Ghostscript version 8.xx or later. You can

 

find recent Ghostscript versions at

 

www.ghostscript.com.

The machine does

It is a known problem that occurs when a color

not print whole pages

printer is used on version 8.51 or earlier of

and its output is half

Ghostscript, 64-bit Linux OS, and reported to

page printed.

bugs.ghostscript.com as Ghostscript Bug

688252.

 

 

The problem is solved in AFPL Ghostscript v.

 

8.52 or above. Download the latest version of

 

AFPL Ghostscript from http://sourceforge.net/

 

projects/ghostscript/ and install it to solve this

 

problem.

I encounter error

Please avoid changing print job parameters (via

“Unable to open mfp

LPR GUI, for example) while a print job is in

port device file!”

progress. Known versions of CUPS server

when printing a

break the print job whenever print options are

changed and then try to restart the job from the

document.

beginning. Since Unified Linux Driver locks mfp

 

 

port while printing, the abrupt termination of the

 

driver keeps the port locked and therefore

 

unavailable for subsequent print jobs. If this

 

situation occurred, please, try to release the

 

mfp port.

When printing a

The CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)

document over the

version distributed with SuSE Linux 9.2

network in SuSE 9.2,

(cups-1.1.21) has a problem with ipp

the printer does not

(Internet Printing Protocol) printing. Use the

socket printing instead of ipp or install later

print.

version of CUPS (cups-1.1.22 or higher).

 

 

 

Refer to Linux User’s Guide that came with your computer for further information on Linux error messages.

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