RE: K12OS: Printing error in Netscape
Eric Harrison (eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us)
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:52:00 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Mark McCarty wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Good point and I actually had that problem first. The HP 4M driver that
>comes in printconf defaults to A4. Once I changed it the jobs from the the
>test page, OpenOffice and Abiword printed fine. Netscape presented a
>different error (40 MIO Error) using the same command (lpr) as AbiWord. It
>doesn't seem to be related to the paper size.
>
>Mark
Postscript is a programming language, it literally programms your
printer to print.
It can be a bug in the printer's postscript interpreter or Netscape could
be generating bad postscript code.
One thing to try is to print to a file and then open the resulting *.ps
file in a postscript viewer, such as "gv", which will display an error box
if the postscript code is bad. At least this worked for debugging a
postscript problem I had this morning.
-Eric
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bert Rolston
>To: 'k12os@riverdale.k12.or.us'
>Sent: 2/11/2002 2:06 PM
>Subject: RE: K12OS: Printing error in Netscape
>
>Hi folks,
>
>Bert here.
>
>I get this too from my Windoze computers. From memory it's tied up with
>the paper size setting.
>
>We use A4 here and Letter will cause this problem.
>
>Try that and see what happens.
>
>Cheers,
>Bert
>
>On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:11 AM, Paul Nelson
>[SMTP:pnelson@riverdale.k12.or.us] wrote:
>> I've seen this before. I think the printtool configures this printer
>> with either duplex set to on or to print from a different paper
>source.
>> Check both of these settings for the printer and see if either are
>> enabled.
>>
>> That's right off the top of my head Mark but I think that's what the
>> problem was when I saw it.
>>
>> ;-) Paul
>>
>> On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 09:45, Mark McCarty wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > My apologies if this is a duplicate
>> >
>> > Trying to print from Netscape 6.2 and/or Mozilla(version included
>with the
>> > K12ltsp 7.2 distribution) to an HP 4M+ with a JetDirect card and it
>reports
>> > a "40 MIO Error" every time.
>> >
>> > Can successfully print from OpenOffice and Abiword to the same
>printer. I
>> > used printconf to set up the JetDirect que and HP 4M Postsrcipt
>driver.
>> > Then used spadin in OpenOffice to install their HP 4M driver.
>Abiword just
>> > uses the lpr command in the command line which is the same command
>Netscape
>> > uses.
>> >
>> > Did a little search on the web and the error is reported in
>association with
>> > Apple Laserwriters although one suggestion is that the JetDirect
>firmware
>> > needs to be upgraded. Makes some since since it's Postscript but my
>question
>> > is why are the problems only showing up in Netscape?
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > Mark McCarty
>> > Instructional Technology Coordinator
>> > Northwest Regional ESD
>> > 5825 NE Ray Circle
>> > Hillsboro, OR 97124
>> > 503-614-1299
>> >
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