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Re: [PLUG] Printing from Windows to CUPS, output sometimes truncated?
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> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:21:45 -0400
> From: "Brian Vagnoni" <bvagnoni@v-system.net>
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> From: JP Vossen [mailto:jp@jpsdomain.org]
[...]
> Sometimes when printing from Windows my output is truncated. For
> example, I just printed a test page from my XP work machine and I have
> the the first 5 lines and part of the 6th, but that's it. Other times
> it works fine.
[...]
More info: when it does this, the job also gets stuck, and other jobs
queue up. I noticed this a little while ago, and moved the stuck/broken
job to another printer. The queued up jobs then printed correctly. The
broken job hadn't printed on the other printer (I guess I needed to
start the job?), so I moved back and it worked. Weird.
> [Might] be old drivers, do you have the latest hplip?
Per http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
"The current version of the HPLIP solution is version 2.8.5"
I have:
hplip 2.8.2-0ubuntu8
hplip-data 2.8.2-0ubuntu8
hplip-firmware 2.7.7-0ubuntu4
> Best way is to compile from source.
I appreciate this and agree that the best way may truly be to compile
from source. But that isn't why I use Ubuntu... If I wanted to spend
all my time checking things to see if they need to be updated I'd use
Windows, and if I wanted to compile everything I'd use Gentoo.
That may sound like a smart-ass answer (like I've ever been accused of
being a smart-ass?!? :), but I really don't mean it that way--it's
literally true. I'm past the point where I want to mess with that kind
of thing, I want stuff to Just Work (which is why I try to avoid
Windows). I love Debian and Ubuntu because they mostly Just Work, and
because so much stuff is in the repositories so I don't have to do the
update work... I'm moving everything I can to Ubuntu LTS and play to
stay there.
> Plus the new printer GUI is cool.
What GUI is that? I'm aware of the CUPS GUI on http://hostname:631/ but
it sounds like you mean something else. Perhaps I need to fiddle
something in there?
Thanks,
JP
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