Comment 29 for bug 802942

I experience similar problems with Thunderbird 38.2.0. Note that >90% of all web pages and emails print out just fine, so in general everything works (printer configuration and printer hardware work in general, and there are no problems with other applications. Using chromium (Version 44.0.2403.89 Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit) I don't have the problem.

The difference with evince is that it uses Cairo 1.13 (~2014) while Gecko uses a patched version of Cairo 1.9.5 (~2010).

In the meantime there have been a lot of improvements to Cairo in respect to PDF: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/log/?qt=grep&q=pdf

Ubuntu printing maintainer and leader of the OpenPrinting project, Till Kamppeter sees a high likelyhood that this issue is fixed as soon as gecko/FF/TB is updated to a recent Cairo version (or Gecko's Cairo version gets patched respectively).

This issue affects multiple ubuntu users on launchpad, and I experience it myself for years (since at least ~2011).