[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#702673: PostScript drivers won't work for HP LaserJet 1200

[Stefan Nagy]

In general I should mention that I am able to print text files and
bitmaps. To me it seems like the problems appear in documents with
simple graphics (that can be vectorized?).

When I print a LibreOffice text document with the logo of my university
in the upper right corner I get the whole page but without the logo (and
in addition I get another page with a error message).

When I said that the PostScript drivers 'won't work' I meant that I
can't print a CUPS test page. For practical reasons I did all the
testing with the CUPS test page…

> Reassigning to cups-filters because I do not see this as a scheduler
> problem. The README for that package is informative. Please see the
> "Selection of the renderer: Ghostscript or Poppler" and "POSTSCRIPT
> PRINTING DEBUG MODE" sections in particular.

Thanks for the hints. I followed the instructions provided in the README
file to change the default renderer for pdftops to Poppler with
lpadmin -p HP-LaserJet-1200 -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops

Since this didn't seem to change anything I also set the psdebug option
to get an uncompressed output and set the resolution limit with
lpadmin -p HP-LaserJet-1200 -o psdebug=true
lpadmin -p HP-LaserJet-1200 -o pdftops-max-image-resolution-default=1440

I didn't get anywhere with this, so I further reduced the resolution
limit until I finally got a full (but bad quality) printout of the test
page with pdftops-max-image-resolution-default=180.

> Note that a file in /tmp/printout should be capable of being viewed by
> a PostScript viewer such as gv.

I also cloned my print queue to a one which prints into a file with
cupsctl FileDevice=yes
lpadmin -p test -E -v file:/tmp/printout
-P /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-1200.ppd

I printed a test page to the file and had no problems to view it with
gv. I'm stuck here… Any more ideas?

Thanks,
Stefan.