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On 04/25/2013 06:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik
wrote:
So I need to ship back some defective merchandize. The
vendor sends me a link to a UPS return label, I open it in
Firefox, and try to print it. The printer is an HP 1320.
When I try to print it, the printer blinks happily for a few
seconds, but stays quiet, and Fedora tells me that the print job
completed succesfully.
I try a few variations. Tell Firefox to print to a PDF file, then
open it in evince, and try to print it. Same results. Tried having
Firefox print to a PS file. Tried using pdf2ps on the PDF file.
Tried a few other things. I forget exactly what I tried, but on
one particular attempt the printer woke up. I got all excited,
until the printer ejected a single page, with a single sentence
"This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 3 Printer",
and completely blank otherwise. Very funny.
I finally got the label to come out by having Firefox print to an
SVG file, opening it in document viewer, and printing it. That
worked.
HP 1320 is a postscript printer, but it looks to me like some PDFs
(not all, I can print most PDFs without any issues) contain
Postscript features that the printer does not support. Anyone know
if there's a way to get CUPS to handle that correctly.
There are pdfs and there are pdfs, and not all are created equal. In
my experience, if you use Adobe Reader, all of them will read out
properly
and print. Some of the FOS programs haven't quite figured out all
the nuances, so I don't try and use them anymore.
--doug
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