Re: Problem with not all pages printing

Helge Blischke <H.Blischke-5dK1KTCurcbQLMG2gba6HQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Peter Seibel wrote:
> > 
> > [Sorry if this is a duplicate--I posted a similar message on the web
> > forum but it never showed up here on gmane. I'm not sure which is more
> > active so I'm reposting here too.]
> > 
> > Hello, I'm using CUPS 1.1.19 on a RedHat GNU/Linux system. I have an
> > hp LaserJet 2200d. For the most part everything works great except
> > sometimes, when printing long documents (> 50 pages), printing will
> > stop before printing all the pages. The printer will go back to being
> > ready to print (green light on). I set LogLevel to debug2 and don't
> > see any obvious differences between what happens with a truncated
> > document and one that printed to completion. And the number of pages,
> > at least as reported by one of the log messages that looks like:
> > 
> >   D [26/Sep/2003:12:57:51 -0700] [Job 260] 0 %%Pages: 74
> > 
> > seems right. I don't know if this is related but I also have a problem
> > when printing long documents that sometimes in the middle of the
> > document, the printer will stop printing an the red error light
> > lights. But there's no paper jam and hitting the reset button gets it
> > to restart where it left off. (I haven't noticed whether this always
> > happens with documents that later get truncated. Could be.)
> > 
> > Any ideas what's wrong or how to debug this?
> > 
> 
> How is your printer connected to your CUPS server? I encountered
> errors like that when we were using the HP printer's built-in lpd
> server, especially when printing jobs that took longer to print than
> to transfer. The errors disappeared since we switched over to CUPS
> (starting with 1.1.2 then) and the socket backend (or later on the
> hpnpf backend).

Physically the printer is plugged into the parallel (IEEE 1284) port.
And as far as I know I'm just running CUPS (1.1.19 now). It seems that
pretty much every job transfers much faster than it prints--i.e. CUPS
marks the job as done long before the printer has finished printing.
This is true for short documents that do print correctly.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      
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