4 pages per side when printing pdf files

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 9 22:57:50 UTC 2010


On 06/09/2010 03:55 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 11:49 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, NoOp wrote:
>> 
>>> What happens when you print a demo page from the printer directly (i.e.,
>>> not via Ubuntu etc)?
>> 
>>    I don't understand your question, as I think I already answered it:
>> 
>>    - my Friday post:
>>         The problem occurs only with pdf files printed from acroread or okular.
>>         For other files, no problem, from any programm and in particular
>>         from system-config-printer.
>>         As I said, pdf files also print correctly from evince.
>>    - my Saturday post:
>>         I insist on the fact that this problem have nothing to do with the number
>>         of pages of the pdf files. It occurs for any number, even for a 1 page file.
>> 
>>     For example, if I print to a postscript file (from acroread or xfig), and then
>>     send it to the printer via lpr, it prints correctly.
>>     Of course, the demo page from the printer is also correct.
>> 
>>     That seems really a cups related problem...
>>     I plan to install lprng, to see what happens.
>> 
> 
> I suspect you are right. However the suggestion regarding the demo page
> from the printer (not from Ubuntu or any other source) would eliminate
> any software issues. I'm referring to printing a demo page directly from
> the printer per the instructions in the manual for the printer. My
> apologies if you've already done that.
> 
> What printer driver are you using - the one from the Samsung CD, a ppd
> from some other source, or the foomatic drivers (Samsung ML-2850D
> Foomatic/Postscript)? If the latter, it may be worth purging and
> reinstalling the foomatic packages.

Sorry, forgot to add the splix package as well...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/splix





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