Problem

Possible Cause and Solution

 

 

How do I specify the

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

IP address of my SMB

the configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS

server?

printing system. Unfortunately, CUPS currently

 

doesn’t allow you 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

Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped

come out as white

with Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have

pages when printing.

some known bugs when processing PostScript

 

output from some applications. Try upgrading to the

 

latest version of CUPS (at least 1.1.14). Some RPM

 

packages for the most popular distributions are

 

provided as a convenience with this Linux Printing

 

Package.

 

 

I have CUPS and some

There may be some local options defined in your ~/

options (such as N-

.lpoptions file, which are manipulated by the

up) seem to be always

lpoptions command. These options are always used

enabled even though I

if not overridden by LLPR settings. To get rid of all

don’t choose them in

options for a printer, run the following command,

LLPR.

replacing “printer” with the name of the queue:

 

lpoptions -x printer

 

 

I configured a printer

Most printing systems will not run as the super-user

to print to a file, but I

but as a special user (usually “lp”). Therefore, make

get “Permission

sure that the file you have chosen to print to is

denied” errors.

accessible to the user owning the spooler daemon.

 

 

On my PCL (or GDI)

Unfortunately, some Unix applications may generate

printer, I sometimes

non-compliant PostScript output that may not be

get error messages

supported by Ghostscript, or even the printer itself

printing instead of my

in PostScript mode. You can try to capture the

document.

output to a file and view the results with Ghostscript

 

(gv or ghostview will allow you to do so

 

interactively) and see if you get error messages.

 

However, since the application is probably at fault,

 

contact your software vendor to inform them of the

 

issue.

 

 

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.

 

 

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Solving Problems

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