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cups-filters package

  1. Bug #951627
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 951627

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

It seems that we have narrowed down the problem to be a bug in Kyocera's PostScript interpreter to make the printers incompatible with the PostScript output of Ghostscript's "ps2write" output device.

A simple modification on the PostScript solves the problem and you can easily test it. Take any Ghostscript-generated PostScript file which makes your Kyocera printer hanging, for example one of the files attached to this bug. Edit the file with a text editor like "gedit" adding the line

/bind {} bind def

right after the line

%!PS-Adobe-3.0

which should be at or at least near the beginning of the file. Now send the file to the printer again with "nc". It should print now.

I will modify the pdftops CUPS filter to insert said line into the PostScript output of Ghostscript if the printer is a Kyocera. This can slow down printing performance a bit but most important is to be able to print at all.

Note that this does not work for Brother printers and so does not fix bug 950713.