[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#660420: Some Postscript printer drivers (Kyocera, Brother, maybe others) do not work anymore

[Wolfgang Walter]

I can also confirm that printing to a kyocera FS-1300D (as a postscript-
printer) does not work any more. It does not print and hangs instead.

This seems to be due to the postscript file generated from the PDF by 
ghostscript (called by the pdftops cups filter in my case).

To test I tried to print my .bashrc: lp .bashrc

1. I redirected the final output a file and then sent to the printer by hand: 
printer does not print and hangs.

2. I modified cupsfilters.convs such that I get the PDF. I then used pdf2ps to 
generate the postscript file. Sent it to the printer: printer does not print 
and hangs.

3. I used pdftops from poppler-utils to generate the postscript file: Sent it 
to the printer and it works.

4. I used ps2ps on this postscript file: the generated one does not work and 
printer hangs.


I called gs with -sDEVICE=pswrite to genrate a postscript file from the PDF: 
that one worked.


The only way I may print using cups with a kyocera FS-1300D as postscript 
printer is by printing to a file as PDF and then using acroread to actually 
print it.


Regards
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
Studentenwerk München
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