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ghostscript package

/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed with Ricoh network printer

Bug #300135 reported by mikem on 2008-11-20

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ghostscript (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Till Kamppeter
Nominated for Intrepid by mikem

Bug Description

This bug is very similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241979

When trying to print anything to my Ricoh network printer, the job fails with the message "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed". With the exact same printer and printer settings, printing worked fine on Hardy; this issue is new since upgrading to Intrepid.

Attached is the output file generated by the printing troubleshooting tool.

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mikem (mmazur) wrote on 2008-11-20:

Output from the printing troubleshooting wizard. Edit (49.2 KiB, text/plain)

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mikem (mmazur) wrote on 2008-11-20:

I should also add that in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241979 the problem was fixed in the package foomatic-filters - 4.0.0~bzr148-0ubuntu1 while I have foomatic-filters - 4.0.0~bzr177-0ubuntu1 installed.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2008-11-20:

This is not a failure of foomatic-rip, but of Ghostscript. It is upstream http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690122, The bugs is already fixed by the upstream developers and the patch also applied to the Jaunty package of Ghostscript (version 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu7).

I mark this bug as fixed for now, as in Jaunty it should work. Please nominate for Intrepid if you like to have it fixed there, too.