12 Sep
2015
12 Sep
'15
10:28 p.m.
On Saturday 12 September 2015 13:38:00 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 12 September 2015 17:32:48 Gene Heskett
wrote:
It was still on the shelf at Staples Office Supply a year ago, so its not
truly ancient like me, yet.
Greetings all;
As has been mentioned, I dabble in CNC machinery too. Maybe that
qualifies me as a power user since the motors used to run the
machinery do spin the power meter up a bit. :)
Anyway, the most recent version of the documentation for LiniuxCNC,
version 2.7.0, has been combined from 3 "books" of nominally 450
pages each, some of which contained duplicate info, into one 704
page tome now.
So I called up kpdf and sent it to print this, duplex mode on my
Brother HL3170CDW color laser printer.
It immediately jumped one core to 100%, but I figured that would
take it a while to preprocess. But after about 10 minutes I began
to worry because I had started that job once before but had to
reboot the machine for other reasons before it had sent a wakeup
byte to the printer.
So I called up a copy of iceweasel to see what
localhost:631/printers/network-printer had to say for itself. Which
was that the "pdftops" filter had failed.
This is 6 years old:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdf
_as_standard_print_job_format
Why do you need a filter to print pdf? Is it because your printer is
very old? Do you know?
I bought it new about 2 years ago. It has now logged something over 4000
pages.
Does anyone else?
Unk, no clue who might have one of these locally. Everyone else is using
inkjets, at 4x the cost per page printed.
The filter is primarily because in order for the current gs to print it,
there needs to be a translation between a pdf and a ps. In any event, I
may have found the source of the reported error, there were a total of 7
images in that file that were rendered, both onscreen and on paper as
solid black in the shape of the expected image. I have reported the
page numbers where this occurred, but haven't heard back from the doc's
compiler yet.
Other than that, the whole thing printed with only 3 orange led blink
sessions, 2 notices to clean the static wires on all 4 drums, and ran
out of paper once. I have it punched and mounted in a 2.5" ring 3 ring
binder already.
Lisi
Thanks Lisi.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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