Problem

Possible Cause and Solution

 

 

The N-up setting does not

The N-up feature is achieved through post-processing of

work correctly for some

the PostScript data that is being sent to the printing

of my documents.

system. However, such post-processing can only be

 

adequately achieved if the PostScript data conforms to the

 

Adobe Document Structing Conventions. Problems may

 

arise when using N-up and other features relying on post-

 

processing if the document being printed isn’t compliant.

 

 

I am using BSD lpr

Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the

(Slackware, Debian, older

length of the option string that can be passed to the

distributions) and some

printing system. As such, if you selected a number of

options chosen in LLPR

different options, the length of the options may be

don’t seem to take effect.

exceeded and some of your choices 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

mode, but it prints

PostScript code that should be printed as is. In that case,

rotated and cropped.

you need to 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

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

printed), and I am using

have a bug preventing them from being processed

CUPS.

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

(Windows) printer.

as 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

be frozen while LLPR is

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

running.

return 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.

 

 

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