Unable to print to Konica Minolta bizhub C253 printer (and other Konica Minolta, Minolta, Brother, and old HP LaserJet)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups-filters (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug was already fixed in Ubuntu 13.10 but it is broken again in 14.04. The printer freezes right after I try to print something.
The original report is bug #1053443.
[Impact]
Several PostScript printers do not work with the PostScript generated by Ghostscript but do not have problems with the PostScript from Poppler. In 14.04 the auto-switching to Poppler for these cases is missing, making printers from Brother, Minolta, Konica Minolta, and old HP LaserJets misbehave. Some Konica Minolta even crash and need to get turned off and turned on again.
[Test Case]
Print on any Brother, Minolta, Konica Minolta, or old HP LaserJet with Ubuntu 14.04. This will not work as always Ghostscript is used to generate PostScript. The proposed package re-activates the switching mechanism to use Poppler for these printers, so you will be able to print.
[Regression Potential]
None, as we had the switching mechanism already in 13.10.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: cups-filters 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 4 10:54:55 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-22 (316 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
Lpstat:
device for KONICA-
device for Samsung-
device for windows_printer: winp://
MachineType: Acer V5-171
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles:
Samsung-
KONICA-
windows_printer: Acrobat Distiller 3011.104
adist5: Acrobat Distiller 3011.104
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=hu
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: cups-filters
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-07 (27 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/22/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V2.17
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: Mimic
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Type2 - Board Version
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:
dmi.product.name: V5-171
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Unable to print to Konica Minolta bizhub C253 printer + Unable to print to Konica Minolta bizhub C253 printer (and other Konica + Minolta, Minolta, Brother, and old HP LaserJet) |
This workaround fixes the problem: renderer- default= pdftops
lpadmin -p <printer> -o pdftops-