This is not totally relevant to the question posed but might give a clue. I found that my Deskjet 690C was exceedingly slow printing certain documents with cups. The problem was cured by changing the driver. The slow driver was hpijs; changing to the cdj550 driver cured the problem. Have a look in the Ghostscript files to see what is available. You may have to change the file file /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd by hand to install a new driver. The appropriate lines are: *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPA&& USE -r300x300 -sDEVICE=cdj550%A%Z -sOutputFile=- - I used the Mandrake - PrinterDrake utility to set up cups rather than the one provided by cups. The choice of drivers was much better. Hope this helps: Basil Fowler On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 05:43, Des Dougan wrote: > I've recently upgraded from SuSE 9.0 to 9.1 (KDE 3.1 to 3.2.1) and am > having an odd printing problem since then. > > I print using CUPS to a LaserJet 4L and am having problems printing some > PDFs to this printer. All other files, and some (simple) PDFs print > fine. More complex PDFs (i.e. other than those created by > OpenOffice.org, as far as I can tell) fail to print. The printer status > light flashes once and goes back to steady, rather than flashing during > the processing of the job - so the job seems to be getting sent to the > printer, but it seems to ignore it. > > CUPS versions are: > > cups-drivers-stp-1.1.20-60 > cups-drivers-1.1.20-60 > cups-client-1.1.20-103 > cups-1.1.20-103 > cups-libs-1.1.20-103 > > Acrobat Reader is the latest from Adobe. > > This is an issue for me as one of the PDFs is a form from my medical > insurance that I fill out in Acrobat then print. I was able to print > prior to the upgrade. > > I'd appreciate any pointers in debugging this. > > Thanks, > > Des > > > -- > > Des Dougan, Principal > Dougan Consulting Group > > Ph: 604-980-2848 Email: des at DouganConsulting dot com > > www.DouganConsulting.com > > Design - Implementation - Support > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.