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From: Francisco Franco <ffranco@aerocompsys.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 17:57:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: PPR: missing ppr.conf? -- should be misconfigured printer?

Hi David,

Well, I ran into the same problem with the updated version of PPR.  I must 
be missing something.

Francisco

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Francisco Franco wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> Just an update.  I went back, removed ppr and re-instated the lp that 
> comes with Solaris.  Defined the printer using the admintool and now it 
> works.  The print job went through on Solaris 8.  Using the OS lp on HP-UX 
> 11, I have to do a lp -d myprinter -o postscript and it works.  I was 
> using ppr-1.44.  I've noticed that ppr-1.50a1 is now available.  I'm going 
> to download the updated package and see if this fixes the problem.
> 
> Any ideas as to what your experience may point to what I have done wrong 
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Francisco
> 
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, David Chappell wrote:
> 
> > Francisco Franco wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi Folks,
> > >
> > >When submitting a postscript print job, I get the following messages:
> > >
> > >+++
> > >WARNING: Procset "NTPSOct95" has no version and revision numbers
> > >WARNING: Ignoring "%%Pages:" in trailer because no "%%Pages: (atend)" in header
> > >WARNING: 241757 characters follow EOF mark
> > >WARNING: No valid "%%Pages:" comment
> > >+++
> > >
> > >The printjob gets stuck at 9% and goes no further.  I have tried to change 
> > >PPD files from the Optra 1855 to the Optra 1255 to Optra 1655 to the 
> > >AppleLaserWritter to the HP Laserjet 4Si Postscript.  I can print output 
> > >from Netscape browser and from text (ie ls | pprd -d...), but I can't 
> > >print the file that is giving me the problem.  I tried to open the  
> > >file that is giving me the problem in GhostView and Ghostview does not 
> > >complain about the file.
> > >
> > >Are there any parameters that I can use to force the job through or get 
> > >more info as to why the job is stuck where it is.  Here is the output from 
> > >the different ppr commands:
> > >
> > It is difficult to know what to suggest.  Chaning the PPD file is 
> > unlikely to help.
> > 
> > I once had jobs that got stuck on an HP 5Si.  The problem was that the 
> > printer would detect a fatal internal error, print an error message, and 
> > partialy reset itself.  The network connection wouldn't be broken but 
> > the printer would "forget" that it was processing a job.  Since PPR was 
> > waiting for the printer to indicate that it had finished the job, it 
> > would wait forever.  You should use the "ppop log" command to display 
> > the job's log file since there might be some indication.
> > 
> > The fact that PPR thinks there are 241757 characters after %%EOF 
> > definitely a bad sign.  It may mean that the DSC comments in the job are 
> > misleading.  If so, it may help to use ppr's "-H editps" option.  PPR 
> > may have a Perl script that can fix the job in its editps/ directory.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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Francisco Franco                        ffranco@aerocompsys.com
AeroComp Consulting Inc.                (416) 409-0163