Samsung ML-1430 manual Common Linux Problems

Common Linux Problems

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
I am using BSD lpr	Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the length of
(Slackware, Debian, older	the option string that can be passed to the printing system. As
distributions) and some	such, if you selected a number of different options, the length
options chosen in SLPR	of the options may be exceeded and some of your choices
don’t seem to take effect.	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 PostScript
mode, but it prints	code that should be printed as is. In that case, you need to
rotated and cropped.	make sure that you leave the SLPR 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 (noting 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 SLPR to print, the Printer Package will
	work around this issue by converting the data to regular
	PostScript. However, if your application by passes SLPR 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	Most Unix applications will expect a command like the regular
be frozen while SLPR is	“lpr” command to be non-interactive and thus return
running.	immediately. Since SLPR 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 SLPR.

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