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Re: Printing impossible

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Printing impossible
Date 2018-03-26 01:20 +0200
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On Sun 25 Mar 2018 at 22:51:25 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:

> Le 25/03/2018 à 19:05, Brian a écrit :
> > On Sun 25 Mar 2018 at 11:29:38 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> > 
> >>> I'll add that I set up a queue with
> >>>
> >>>   lpadmin - p 1750 -v file:/dev/null -E -m drv:///splix-samsung.drv/ml1750.ppd
> >>>
> >>> and printed the test page from the CUPS web interface. All filters
> >>> completed without any errors, as they do when cupsfilter was used with
> >>> any file I threw at it. Not much use in my testing the Ghostscript
> >>> command in that situation. The OP's experiences might be different, of
> >>> course.
> >>
> >>
> >> I did all this. On http://demo.accelibreinfo.eu/error_log you have my
> >> newest log, job 74 and 75. Still not printing.
> > 
> > Are we to assume you did the following?
> > 
> > 1. Set up a queue as shown above. (There is no output because it goes to
> >    /dev/null).
> 
> With lpadmin, yes. And in Printers - Queue - Default options.
> 
> 
> > 2. Print to it with 'lp -d /etc/services'.
> 
> I tried to print a test page. If I do lp -d /etc/services, I get "no
> such file or dir". If I add a pdf file (lp -d /etc/services file.pdf" or
> "lp file.pdf -d /etc/services", I get a similar error message.

Sometimes a respondent makes an error or a there is typo. Consulting the
lp manual might have helped you to sort it yourself.

 lp -d 1750 /etc/services

> > 3. Examine the error_log. Four filters are used. Do any of them fail?
> 
> Logs dont seem to say another error than the initial mail I posted,
> "COuld not find default_gray.icc", and "Cannot find device profile".
> Just some lines later however, I have "gstoraster filter stopped" with
> status 1. So I would say this filter fails.
> 
> >> I add also that I think indeed it is a ghostscript problem, but changing
> >> the commandline as suggested in the bug report is impossible for me as I
> >> dont know how I could set cups to change the commandline it sends.
> > 
> > Your three logs show gstoraster stopped, so spliX has no input from it
> > to render. We can test the ghostscript command without doing anything to
> > cups. The command is in your logs.
> > 
> > gs -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOINTERPOLATE \
> >    -dNOMEDIAATTRS -dShowAcroForm -sstdout=%stderr \
> >    -sOutputFile=%stdout \   <----- Replace %stdout with out.ras.
> 
> Not sure I understood: I did: -sOutputFile=out.ras \

That's ok.

> >    -sDEVICE=cups -r600x600 -dMediaPosition=1 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 \
> >    -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dcupsBitsPerColor=1 -dcupsColorOrder=0 \
> >    -dcupsColorSpace=3 -dcupsCompression=17 -scupsPageSizeName=A4 \
> >    -I/usr/share/cups/fonts -c \
> >    input.pdf
> > 
> > I have removed the -c switch and its argument because the argument is
> > interpreted as PostScript code and we are not inputting PostScript.
> > 
> > I have also split the command to use short, readable lines; the "\"s
> > have to be omitted when it is put on a single line.
> > 
> > Before running the gs command we need an input.pdf which has been
> > processed by cups. Do this:
> > 
> > cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/Samsung.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-pdf /etc/services > input.pdf
> 
> ok many thanks. input.pdf processing (first command) gives:
>   ./base/gsicc_manage.c:1148: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find
> default_gray.icc
> | ./base/gsicc_manage.c:1799: gsicc_set_device_profile(): cannot find
> device profile
> Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
> Operand stack:
>     true
> 
> > Also use any other PDF on your machine as input.pdf.
> 
> I get:
>  ./base/gsicc_manage.c:1148: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find
> default_gray.icc
> | ./base/gsicc_manage.c:1799: gsicc_set_device_profile(): cannot find
> device profile
> Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
> Operand stack:
>     true
> 
> 
> That is wh I reported to ghoscript before asking here.

And upstream at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695873 said:

 > The only way to tell for sure would be to try removing each
 > option until the problem goes away. You can do *that* from
 > the command shell yourself.

You have the command. Remove options one by one and report back.

-- 
Brian.

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Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-18 23:30 +0100
  Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-19 13:30 +0100
    Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-19 14:20 +0100
      Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-19 15:00 +0100
        Re: Printing impossible Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-19 16:00 +0100
          Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-19 16:30 +0100
            Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-20 19:50 +0100
              Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-25 11:40 +0200
                Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-25 19:10 +0200
                Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-25 23:00 +0200
                Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-26 01:20 +0200
                Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-26 06:00 +0200
                Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-27 10:40 +0200
                Re: Printing impossible Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-27 12:40 +0200
            Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-25 11:30 +0200
  Re: Printing impossible songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-19 16:10 +0100
    Re: Printing impossible MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-03-25 11:20 +0200

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