[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#663712: cups: printing fails with ERROR: undefined (HP LaserJet 4600)

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> try printing again with the latest package versions and let us know
> how you go on.

I retried the three methods of printing, each of which had problems before.
Here's what happened with each one:

1. lp -o fitplot file.pdf

   This method now works fine.  Progress!


2. pdftops -paper match file.pdf - | lp -o fitplot

   This one is improved: Now all pages print, and the pink boxes are
   pink (rather than green).  But the pages are still too small, taking
   up roughly the upper left one-quarter of the page.  And the second
   page comes out mangled; I've attached a b/w scan (the colors are
   okay, but the placement of part of the text block is wrong).

3. pdftops -paper letter file.pdf - | lp -o raw

   This one got better in that the pink box on page 4 is now pink.  But
   only the first 4 pages printed (out of 10).  But there was no error in
   the cups error_log or any error reported by the printer.

The pdftops in methods 2 and 3 is /usr/bin/pdftops from this package:

  poppler-utils  0.18.4-3

Maybe what remains of this bug should be reassigned to poppler-utils?
Actually, that's not right.  The ps file produced in method 2, via
"pdftops -paper match file.pdf -", looks fine in gs.  But when that ps
file is sent to the printer, then the second page comes out mangled, and
the pages are too small.  So that still seems like a cups-filter
problem.

In method 3, I'm not sure what the failure point is, since it sends the
postscript directly to the printer with lp -o raw.  The failure to print
pages 5-10 then seems like a printer problem (but there's no error
reported anywhere, so it's hard to find out more).

-Sanjoy

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