Comment 26 for bug 27499

forwarded 344401 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272670
thanks

This bug appears to be this upstream bug, and contains some of the
same advice as below.

* Jan Willem Stumpel (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> Printing in firefox (Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2) is 'hosed' with
> lprng too, so this is not CUPS-specific.
>
> It is interesting to see how exactly it is hosed. The following
> results explain some of the conflicting reports:
>
> Test A.
> =======
>
> 1. Remove prefs.js from the firefox default directory.
> 2. Start firefox.
> 3. print page to file using PostScript/Default (i.e. CUPS, if you
> have that). Succeeds.
> 4. print same page to file using xprint (lp@:64). Fails. 'Paper
> size is not supported by printer'.
> 5. Stop firefox.
>
> Test B.
> =======
>
> 1. Remove prefs.js from the firefox default directory.
> 2. Start firefox.
> 3. print page to file using xprint (lp@:64). Succeeds.
> 4. print same page to file using PostScript/Default. Fails. 'Paper
> size is not supported by printer'.
> 5. Stop firefox.
>
> So it is whatever you used first, from a 'virgin' situation, that
> works (and will keep working afterwards).
>
> I noticed that in the new firefox the 'Postscript/Default' has
> been changed; it now uses Freetype printing by default, and thus
> can print international pages. So we are closer to being able to
> get rid of xprint (/etc/init.d/xprint stop or update-rc.d -f
> xprint remove); then X must be restarted, otherwise there will be
> long delays while firefox keeps looking for the missing xprint.
> Now only PostScript/Default will be offered.
>
> Unfortunately, the print results with PostScript/Default, although
> better than they used to be, are still not quite up to the
> standard of (properly tuned) xprint. For instance I noticed some
> problems with printing left and right (UTF-8) single quotes, and
> with Korean. But this may also be a matter of tuning.

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