Problem | Possible Cause and Solution |
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I am using BSD lpr | Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the length |
(Slackware, Debian, older | of the option string that can be passed to the printing system. |
distributions) and some | As such, if you selected a number of different options, the |
options chosen in LLPR | limitation length of the options may be exceeded and some of |
don’t seem to take effect. | your choices won’t be passed to the programmes responsible |
| for implementing them. Try to select less options that deviate |
| from the defaults, to save on memory usage. |
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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 rotated | code that should be printed as is. In that case, you need to |
and cropped. | 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. |
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Some pages come out all | If the data being sent is in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) |
white (nothing 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 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. |
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I can’t print to a SMB | To be able to configure and use |
(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. |
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My application seems to be | Most Unix applications will expect a command like the regular |
frozen while LLPR is | “lpr” command to be |
running. | 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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How do I specify the IP | It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialogue of the |
address of my SMB server? | configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing system. |
| Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn’t allow one 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. |
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Some documents come out | Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with |
as white pages when | Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have some known |
printing. | bugs when processing the PostScript output from some |
| applications. Try upgrading to the latest version of CUPS (at |
| least 1.1.14). Some RPM packages for most popular |
| distributions are provided as a convenience with this Linux |
| Printing Package. |
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