Re: printer recommendations

[Malcolm Herbert <mjch%mjch.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:24:54PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
|  serious question for those who do use CUPS - on my father's machine
|  any file sent through CUPS results in a single blank page, whether
|  sent to a printer on the local parallel port or to a new networked
|  printer.  Both are PostScript printers and the files being sent are
|  also PostScript.
|
|There has been a bug in some PS implementations or in cups, hard to tell
|which, surrounding page accounting.  In
|/usr/pkg/libexec/cups/filter/cupsomatic, set $ps_accounting to 0 instead
|of 1 and see if that helps.  I used to have to do this, but I thought it
|was fixed in more recent versions.

thanks - I will try that the next time I am at my folks' place ... 

Regards,
Malcolm

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