Ubuntu 12.10 cups fails printing to Kyocera Minolta 283

[Pieter van Onselen]

I have a problem printing from my Ubuntu 12.10 installation.

Initially printing to a Minolta 283 bizhub hanged the printer for some reason.

I used the linux driver suppied by Konica Minolta. This driver worked fine with 11.10

Installed with cups adming with a network printer using:

socket://10.1.1.20:9100

Printer install and everything looks fine except when printing the printer freezes.

[Rick Sigler (ricksigler)]

Same problem here, but with a Konica Minolta Bizhub C220. Worked fine with Lubuntu 12.04, but no luck with Ubuntu 12.10.

Install goes flawlessly but printer freezes when attempting to print.

[Daniel Schwiperich (daniel-schwiperich)]

Same Problem here with Bizhub C220 and Ubuntu 12.10
Trying to print will freeze the printer.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Caeilte Reid (creid)]

I have same issue here with konica minotla bizhup c253 - printer hangs after sending any file to it - doesnt seem to matter whcih protocol I use.
CUPS says job finished and sent to printer. When printer hangs - cant ping printer - it drops off network ! - have to power cycle and reboot the printer.
Happens with print "test page" after adding netork printer.

[ginalfa (ginalfa)]

Same here with Konica Minolta bizhub c220 and ubuntu quantal.
The printer worked fine with all previous ubuntu releases.
After a quantal fresh install the printer freezes and needs off/on cycle.
It happens sending any job to the printer (including test page and toner level inquiry).

[Mike vom Scheidt (m-vomscheidt)]

Same Issue here, also on Ubuntu 12.10.

Printing normally or even the test page freezes the printer (just like other people before me wrote already)

[Pieter van Onselen (pvanonselen)]

Activated debugging with:
cupsctl LogLevel=debug
cupsctl LogDebugHistory=999999

Restarted cups.

Attached the error_log in /var/log/cups

[bart (bart-wp)]

I think this might be relevant:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PDF_as_Standard_Print_Job_Format

In LibreOffice you can set the Print Format to Postscript. When i do that i can print to a Bizhub c360. With pdf set as Format it causes the Printer to freez up.

[Pieter van Onselen (pvanonselen)]

Thanks bart.

Working with workaround.

Open libreoffice go to printer setup -> Properties -> Device

Set Printer Language Type = Postscript (Level from printer)

Now seems to print.

I think this should still be fixed though but at least I can print with the workaround.

[kilmarnock (kilmarnock-gmx)]

I can confirm Barts Workaround. Using the postscript option makes me print on a Bizhub C353.

I do not think that this is a duplicate of 1053443. There, the error log contains filter errors, while this is not the case here?

Attached my error log (erasing it, not fiddling with the webinterface)

[kilmarnock (kilmarnock-gmx)]

I can confirm the solution of Brandon Bell in bug 1053443. So it is a duplicate.

Sorry

[Pieter van Onselen (pvanonselen)]

Ubuntu 13.04

Still the same problem. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE FIX THIS !!!!!

Solution Brandon Bell in bug 1053443 does NOT work.

Workaround works bart (bart-wp) wrote on 2013-02-18:https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PDF_as_Standard_Print_Job_Format

In LibreOffice you can set the Print Format to Postscript. When i do that i can print to a Bizhub c360. With pdf set as Format it causes the Printer to freez up.