[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#660420: cups: Possibly NO postscript printers work anymore

[Michael Schmitt]

Hi,

today I had the chance to test cups with a pcl5e Printer (Brother 
HL-2030), funny thing, the message "PDF file is damaged - attempting to 
reconstruct xref table..." is the same, BUT it does print the testpage 
document! One can see that message briefly while the printjob is 
processed and after the job is finished (and printed out correctly) the 
status of the printer changes to idle with the message above and 
mentioned earlier.  A simple texdocument from e.g. within gedit (Gnome 
texteditor) does not show this message and the document is printed out 
fine too.
Another thing I forgot to mention in the last post, the Kyocera printers 
tend to stay "busy" when I try to test something. They don't enter 
energy-saving mode and make a lot of noise (the same noise that happens 
directly before a printout) and never stop doing that. No idea if that 
puts unnecessary strain on the printers but it could and thus makes this 
issue maybe even more dramatic.

My current assumption is that somewhere "in between" the postscript data 
is mangled the wrong way and thus confusing the printers, as non 
postscript printers are not affacted (apart from the same "PDF file is 
damaged..." message) but the cups / gnome testpages are iirc just 
Postscript-documents and thus the message is the same...

regards
Michael