Common Linux problems

 

 

Condition

Suggested solutions

 

 

 

• Check if the printer driver is installed in your

 

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,

 

please, 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 printer doesn’t

the printers list. Look at the description in

the Selected printer pane. If its status

print.

contains “(stopped)” string, please, 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.

 

• 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.

 

 

 

Please avoid changing print job parameters

 

(via LPR GUI, for example) while a print job is

I encounter error

in progress. Known versions of CUPS server

break the print job whenever print options are

“Unable to open

changed and then try to restart the job from

MFP port device

the beginning. Since Unified Linux Driver

file!” when printing

locks port while printing, the abrupt

a document.

termination of the driver keeps the port locked

 

and therefore unavailable for subsequent print

 

jobs. If this situation occurred, please, try to

 

release the port.

 

 

When printing a

The CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)

version distributed with SuSE Linux 9.2

document over the

(cups-1.1.21) has a problem with IPP

network in SuSE

(Internet Printing Protocol) printing. Use the

9.2, the printer

socket printing instead of IPP or install later

does not print.

version of CUPS (cups-1.1.22 or higher).

 

 

 

Common Macintosh problems

Condition

Suggested solutions

 

 

The printer does not

Incompatibility between the PDF file and

the Acrobat products:

print PDF file correctly.

Printing the PDF file as an image may

Some parts of graphics,

solve this problem. Turn on Print As

text, or illustrations are

Image from the Acrobat printing options.

missing.

Note: it will take longer to print when you

 

print a PDF file as an image.

 

 

The document has

 

printed, but the print job

Update your Mac OS to OS 10.3.3 or

has not disappeared

higher.

from the spooler in Mac

 

OS 10.3.2.

 

 

 

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