[CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hull-Richter
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:44 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
> 
> On 8/2/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
> >
> > By the looks of it it appears to be a problem with printing 
> postscript.
> >
> > Is the ghostscript package and it's fonts properly installed?
> >
> Here's what I show (that I know to looks for, although I presume that
> if this shows, other dependencies must have been resolved since I use
> yum for virtually all installations):
> 
> $ rpm -qa | grep ghost
> ghostscript-8.15.2-9.1.el5.x86_64
> ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.1.noarch
> ghostscript-8.15.2-9.1.el5.i386
> 
> > If you enscript a text file and print it does it come out ok?
> >
> 
> Not quite sure how to do this, but here's what I did:
> 
> Used gedit to create a pdf of a text file, then AR to print it - fine.
> Used AR to create a ps file from the pdf, then printed it - fine.
> Used gedit to print to the generic postscript printer (lpr) 
> and - came out fine.
> 
> Text is not a problem, just something about these graphic pdfs (and
> any graphics file from the GIMP).  Note that the image viewer prints
> jpeg graphics just fine, too.

Ok, so it's not a general postscript failure, but maybe just EPS...

If the printer needs a hard-reset to recover then it is probably
because the printer isn't fully PCL compatible as it advertises,
can you try using an HP Deskjet engine which does PCL 3?

-Ross

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