On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 21:31 -0500, fred smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:51:18AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:22 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:57:20PM -0500, Digimer wrote: > > > > On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > > When I try to print double sided to this printer I get a single page > > > > > reading: > > > > > > > > > > ERROR NAME; > > > > > stackunderflow > > > > > COMMAND; > > > > > pop > > > > > OPERAND STACK; > > > > > > > > > > I almost always see this when printing anything double sided from > > > > > Firefox or from Acroread, but not when printing from Okular or > > > > > LibreOffice. There are other weird problems, but too erratic to > > > > > report. > > > > > > > > > > System is Fedora-17 fully up to date, running on x86_64 hardware. The > > > > > ppd file appears to come from: > > > > > foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-31.20120103.fc17.noarch > ... > Um,... try choosing a different driver, one of the ones that Cups > provides, or one of the foomatic drivers, and see how they work. > Or try a generic PCL or PostScript driver and see what happens. > > If the printer is receiving the PS and is choking on it, it may be > that you could avoid that by using one of its other "personalities", > e.g. PCL3/PCL5/whatever instead (as mentioned above). A good idea. I've tried the 5 printers suggested by system-config-printer for this model printer with the following results. (Testing all the 3767 drivers in the Foomatic database seems a little excessive.) Brother-HL-5250DN BR-Script3 Double sided printing FAILS Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript Double sided printing FAILS Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/lj5gray Driver FAILS completely (see below for error message) Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/pxlmono Double sided printing WORKS Page download so slow as to be unusable Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript Double sided printing FAILS Attempting to print the test page for the Foomatic/lj5gray driver produces this output on the printer: PCL XL error Subsystem: Kernel Error: ExtraData Operator: 0xc1 Position: 7 Thanks to all - jon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
