[SOLVED] Printers not printing after update to M4

[SOLVED] Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby Garthhh » Feb 12th, '14, 01:55

Asus 51 BB pc
4g ram
amd a6 cpu
M3 installed from alt cd
KDE

hp p3010
&
hp f4400
both print test pages & nothing else

what's the next step?
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 12th, '14, 02:32

Check viewtopic.php?p=44667#p44667 and the rest of that thread.

Another user in the german forum mentioned that changing driver from Postscript to Gutenprint worked fine. That was for a HP Laserjet, but may also work for you.
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby Garthhh » Feb 12th, '14, 04:17

I did see that thread
I can't pick the solution out of the text
I need to figure out my much more pressing problem
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6968

thanks for the reply
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby Garthhh » Feb 22nd, '14, 03:00

the other thread is a result of running the cups trouble shooter, trying to resolve the printer problem
I'm not finding the place to change print drivers?
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby lloyd » Feb 23rd, '14, 04:48

I actually started this thread a while back. It seems the problem is not with the printer or driver.
It appears to be a CUPS/ghostscript bug.
Now for the good news! Somebody posted a workaround that will fix it!
Go here and copy the small BASH script....
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11684#c18
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 23rd, '14, 13:16

If you scroll a bit down in that bug, update candidates have already been prepared.
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby Garthhh » Feb 23rd, '14, 19:41

Dok
does that me there will be an update that will fix the issue?
Thanks for the replies

Lloyd thanks for the reply, but that solution is not clear to me
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby pete910 » Feb 24th, '14, 01:15

Seems mine suffered from the same problem, That was with a oki 5450c network printer. The linked topic Doktor5000 pointed out also solved the issue on my systems.
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 24th, '14, 12:18

Garthhh wrote:Dok
does that me there will be an update that will fix the issue?

Yes, it is currently being tested by QA via https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12856
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Re: Printers not printing after update to M4

Postby Garthhh » Feb 26th, '14, 07:43

Tonight's update fixed it
Thanks again Dok
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