cupsys in combination with xpp

You should provide /var/log/cups/error_log, /etc/cups/printers.conf

I printed with xpp 1 a4 to a4 page then 2a4 pages to 1 a4 page second command showed no result here is the info

/var/log/cups/error_log is empty

/etc/cups/printers.conf

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.0
# Written by cupsd on 2006-06-09 00:59
<Printer Canon>
Info Canon_i455
Location
DeviceURI usb://Canon/i455
State Idle
StateTime 1149784708
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<DefaultPrinter photo>
Info Epson_StylusPhoto750
Location
DeviceURI usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20750
State Idle
StateTime 1149642603
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy abort-job
</Printer>

Could you try with some other application (evince, etc...)? But, please, before you try, add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/packages/libgnomeprint/ ./

run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade.

Thank you.

I upgraded like mentioned before
for testing i started evince in a shell.
no heres the outout from shell:

when choosing "print":
Model not found, discarding config

(evince:6644): GnomePrint-WARNING **: Could not create filter from
description 'frgba': filter 'frgba' is unknown

when setting layout and 2 pages per sheet a item apears in the printer
queue but nothing happen.
printing one page per sheet works

error_log/access_log/page_log still are empty

some ideas what to do next?

ohh and thanks so far because i really need to use this feature
otherwise the printer is not very useable for me.

regards
razahel

something I forgot to mention after printer such a job (2 or more pages a sheet)
the gnome cups dialog says:
PRINT: USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds...
but the printer never returns

i restarted cupsys ... nothing
the only thing which helps is rebooting or unpluggin the printer and replug it

Can you verify you have libgnomeprint2.2-0 version 2.12.1-3ubuntu2 installed as Anté suggested (dpkg -l libgnomeprint2* should give the answer).

Can you try if n-up printing from a command line
works by printing a multipage pdf document, e.g.:
$ lp -d Canon -o number-up=4 file.pdf

m< deb's:
ii libgnomeprint2 2.12.1-3ubuntu The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
runtime f
ii libgnomeprint2 2.12.1-3ubuntu The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
data file

ok now something strange which i have not checked before apeared
pdf documents work except from acroreader from marillat
but I wanted to PRINT ps files and that is not working ??????

Pascal De Vuyst wrote:
> Can you verify you have libgnomeprint2.2-0 version 2.12.1-3ubuntu2
> installed as Anté suggested (dpkg -l libgnomeprint2* should give the
> answer).
>
> Can you try if n-up printing from a command line
> works by printing a multipage pdf document, e.g.:
> $ lp -d Canon -o number-up=4 file.pdf
>
>

Your original bug report (haven't read the postings below that) looks like your original print file is content with some issue, so that what CUPS' pstops filter sees coming along has a problem (like not being compliant as "DSC PostScript") it cannot process correctly.

It could also be a problem of the application generating the PostScript print file. Which filetype are you trying to print from which application?

Can you post a link to the file, so I can have a look?

I wanted to print a ps file created by openoffice Impress but somewhat I only can print this file on one page per sheet.

Please attach your /etc/cups/printers.conf and output of uname -a. Thanks

The desired output:
uname -a:
Linux trollcave 2.6.15-25-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:25:49 UTC 2006
i686 GNU/Linux

I hope it helps to solve the problem.
Thanks so far!

Ante Karamatić schrieb:
> Please attach your /etc/cups/printers.conf and output of uname -a.
> Thanks
>
>

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.0
# Written by cupsd on 2006-06-19 11:15
<Printer Canon>
Info Canon_i455
DeviceURI usb://Canon/i455
State Idle
StateTime 1150235632
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<DefaultPrinter Canon_i455-TurboPrint>
Info Canon_i455-TurboPrint
Location
DeviceURI http://192.168.50.26:631/printers/Canon
State Idle
StateTime 1150708500
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer muddi>
Info Canon_PIXMA_iP3000
DeviceURI http://192.168.50.5:631/printers/Canon
State Idle
StateTime 1150666092
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer photo>
Info Epson_StylusPhoto750
DeviceURI usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20750
State Idle
StateTime 1150235632
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy abort-job
</Printer>

Looks like to me SeG have given all info requested, so passing from Needs Info, to Unconfirmed.

XPP does not modify the data stream which goes to the printer, it only send the option settings chosen in th GUI to CUPS together with the job. So

lpr -P <printer> -o number-up=4 <file>

is asolutely equivalent to

xpp <file>

when choosing the printer <printer> in XPP and then clicking "Options" and choosing 4 pages per sheet.

So try

lpr -P <printer> -o number-up=4 <file>

at first to make sure that it is not an XPP problem.

[Expired for xpp (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!