[CentOS] cups drivers for printing pdf and tif
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
office at plnet.rs
Tue Apr 26 23:56:34 UTC 2011
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>> List,
>>
>> I updated a gateway/router computer with Centos 5.6 and lost the ability
>> to print pdf and tif files with the command "lp -d printer img.tif"
>>
>> This new unit replaced a Fedora 5 system that had been working well, and
>> is still able to print pdf and tif files withing the same network.
>>
>> I have other Centos 5.6 gateway's at different facilities that print the
>> pdf and tif files without a problem. All of these 5.6 systems have been
>> updated without a problem.
>>
>> hpijs-1.6.7-6.el5_6.1.x86_64 has already been installed.
>>
>> I am at a loss in trying to see the difference between my 5.6 machines
>> and would appreciate some advice as to where to look.
>>
>> Thanks much for your help.
>>
>> Greg Ennis
>>
>
> Have you checked if you are able to print regular text? It's a first
> step in troubleshooting. And what is the commands output when you try to
> print pdf/tiff?
>
> Ljubomir
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ljubomir,
>
> Regular ASCII text prints fine, as well as any pcl file. I can print
> pdf and tiff files from a different computer on the affected printer,
> but when a pdf or tiff file goes through the print server on the gateway
> the print stream ends up printing graphic characters on several pages
> instead of the image in the file.
>
> The output of lp -d lpt3 ./img.tif is normal
> "request id is lpt3-842 (1 file(s))"
>
> I thought this might be a libtiff problem, but I have the same file on
> our other machines (libtiff-3.8.2),
>
> libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_6.7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_6.7.i386 already installed and latest version
>
> Thank you for your help, I am stumped on this one so far.
>
> Greg
>
You should run "yum list installed > <text-file-name>" on both working
and non-working system and compare (diff?) those lists.
Ljubomir
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