wasting paper every print job

[jeffarch]

Hi!

I'm using Mageia 4 with a Lexmark Optra E310 postsscript aser printer. I started off using the recommended/included PS driver, and was getting a wasted page for every print job that says (indentation removed):

GPL Ghostscript 910 (ps2write)
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%CreationDate: D:20140730092712

Did some googling, found
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 175487761/
and decided to go hunting for a factory PPD, which I got from
http://support.lexmark.com/index?docLoc ... cale=EN_US

So I'm now using LOPE310.PPD from that download, and am still getting wasted pages, this time with:
st Page" (truncated filename...this was test page)
@JPL SET USERNAME = "root"
@JPL ENTER LANGUAGE = Postscript

The closest exlaination/fix I've seen so far is the thread at
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126923
especially the links in the last post.

The PCL6 driver does seem to work without wasting a sheet of paper as above, but other times it wastes paper by printing bars of pixels instead of the expected output. Great...I get a choice in how I want my wasted papwer to look. Ghostscript keeps the sated toner to a minimum, I suppose. I need only so much "scratch" paper.

Any guidance and pondering would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff

[doktor5000]

That factory .PPD, is it the same as the one from http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Lex ... Optra_E310 ?
Also found in in an Ubuntu post that works: http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum/at ... script.ppd
(from the german thread http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/lexma ... ript-code/ )
Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/110804

This all also seems to depend on what's configured in the printer itself. There's a softkey that can change printer language, check e.g. http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/post/5115612/ via google translate.

You can also try the cups gutenprint driver instead of any of the PS or PCL drivers, seems to work for some.