Xerox 6110 manual Common Linux Problems

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
Some letters are not	This problem is caused because Mac OS can not
displayed normally	create the font during the Cover page printing.
during the Cover page	English alphabet and numbers are displayed
printing.	normally at the Cover page.

Common Linux Problems

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
I can’t change settings	You need to have administrator privileges to be able
in the configuration	to change global settings.
tool.
I am using the KDE	You may not have the GTK libraries installed. These
desktop but the	usually come with most Linux distributions, but you
configuration tool and	may have to install them manually. Refer to your
LLPR won’t start.	distribution’s installation manual for more details
	about installing additional packages.
I just installed this	Some versions of the KDE or GNOME desktop
package but can’t find	environments may require that you restart your
entries in the KDE/	session for the changes to take effect.
Gnome menus.
I get a “Some options	Some printers have conflicting settings, meaning
are not selected” error	that some settings for two options can’t be selected
message while editing	at the same time. When you change a setting and
the printer settings.	the Printer Package detects such a conflict, the
	conflicting option is changed to a “No Choice” value.
	You have to choose an option that does not conflict
	before being able to submit the changes.

Problem	Possible Cause and Solution
I can’t make a printer	In some conditions, it may not be possible to
the system default.	change the default queue. This happens with some
	variants of LPRng, especially on recent RedHat
	systems that use the “printconf” database of
	queues.
	When using printconf, the /etc./printcap file is
	automatically refreshed from the database of
	printers managed by the system (usually through
	the “printtool” command), and the queues in /
	etc./printcap.local are appended to the resulting
	file. The default queue in LPRng is defined as the
	first queue in /etc./printcap, and therefore it is
	not possible for the Linux Printer Package to change
	the default when some queues have otherwise been
	defined using printtool.
	LPD systems identify the default queue as the one
	named “lp”. Thus, if there is already a queue by this
	name, and if it doesn’t have an alias, then you won’t
	be able to change the default. To work around this,
	you can either delete the queue or rename it by
	manually editing the /etc./printcap file.
The N-up setting does	The N-up feature is achieved through post-
not work correctly for	processing of the PostScript data that is sent to the
some of my	printing system. However, such post-processing can
documents.	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 that rely 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
(Slackware, Debian,	the length of the option string that can be passed to
older distributions)	the printing system. As such, if you selected a
and some options	number of different options, you may have
chosen in LLPR don’t	exceeded the length of the options and some of
seem to take effect.	your choices won’t be passed to the programs
	responsible for implementing them. Try to select
	fewer options that deviate from the defaults, to
	save on memory usage.
I am trying to print a	Most Unix applications that offer a Landscape
document in	orientation option in their printing options will
Landscape mode, but	generate correct PostScript code that should be
it prints rotated and	printed as is. In that case, you need to make sure
cropped.	that you leave the LLPR option set to its default
	Portrait setting, to avoid unwanted rotations of the
	page that would result in cropped output.

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Solving Problems