Xerox 3117 Printing, Print to a file, but I get, Permission denied, Printer, I sometimes get

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
How do I specify the IP	It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialog of the
address of my SMB	configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing
server?	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	Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with
out 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.
I have CUPS and some	There may be some local options defined in your ~/
options (such as N-up)	.lpoptions file, which is manipulated by the lpoptions
seem to be always	command. These options will always be used if not
enabled even though I	overridden by LLPR settings. To get rid of all options for a
don’t pick them in LLPR.	printer, run the following command, replacing “printer”
	with the name of the queue: lpoptions -x printer.
I configured a printer to	Most printing systems will not run as the super-user but as
print to a file, but I get	a special user (usually “lp”). Therefore, make sure that the
“Permission denied”	file you have chosen to print to is accessible to the user
errors.	owning the spooler daemon.
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On my PCL (or SPL)	Unfortunately, some Unix applications may generate non-
printer, I sometimes get	compliant PostScript output that may not be supported by
error messages printing	Ghostscript, or even the printer itself in PostScript mode.
instead of my document.	You can try to capture the output to a file and view the
	results with Ghostscript (gv or ghostview will allow you to
	do so interactively) and see if you get error messages.
	However, since the application is at probably fault, contact
	your software vendor to inform them of the issue.

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