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, 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, 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. For instance, this could be

 

an attempt to print document when port is

 

claimed by a scanning application.

 

• Check if the port is not busy. Since functional

 

components of MFP (printer and scanner)

 

share the same I/O interface (port), the

 

situation of simultaneous access of different

 

“consumer” application to the same port is

 

possible. To avoid possible conflicts, only

 

one of them at a time is allowed to gain

 

control over the device. The other

 

“consumer” will encounter “device busy”

 

response. You should open ports

 

configuration and select the port assigned to

 

your printer. In the Selected port pane you

 

can see if the port is occupied by some other

 

application. If this is the case, you should

 

wait for completion of the current job or

 

should press Release port button, if you are

 

sure that the present owner is not functioning

 

properly.

 

• 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.

 

• The CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)

 

version distributed with SuSE Linux 9.2

 

(cups-1.1.21) has a problem with ipp

 

(Internet Printing Protocol) printing.Use the

 

socket printing instead of ipp or install later

 

version of CUPS (cups-1.1.22 or higher).

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 cannot scan via

• Check if Gimp Front-end has “Xsane: Device

Gimp Front-end.

dialog.” on the “Acquire” menu. If not, you

 

should install Xsane plug-in for Gimp on the

 

your computer. You can find Xsane plug-in

 

package for Gimp on Linux distribution CD or

 

Gimp home page. For the detail information,

 

refer to the Help for Linux distribution CD or

 

Gimp Front-end application.

 

If you wish to use other kind of scan application,

 

refer to the Help for application.

I encounter error

Avoid changing print job parameters (via LPR

“Cannot open port

GUI, for example) while a print job is in

device file” when

progress. Known versions of CUPS server

printing a document.

break the print job whenever print options are

changed and then try to restart the job from the

 

 

beginning. Since Unified Linux Driver locks port

 

while printing, the abrupt termination of the

 

driver keeps the port locked and therefore

 

unavailable for subsequent print jobs. If this

 

situation occurred, try to release the port.

 

 

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