Samsung ML-2550 Series Am using BSD lpr, Distributions and some, Options chosen in Llpr, Cropped

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
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	length of the options may be exceeded and some of your
don’t seem to take effect.	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.
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.
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.
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 be	Most Unix applications will expect a command like the regular
frozen while LLPR is	“lpr” command to be non-interactive and thus return
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.
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 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 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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