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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu> Date: 20 Feb 2003 14:23:51 -0500 Subject: Re: PPR: Too many copies of one page printing job On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 01:01, rose.wu@utoronto.ca wrote: Just for the record, what OS and PPR version are you using? > Hi, David, > > Thanks for your reply. > > It prints 1 copies of page1 then 10 copiey of page2 in this case. We did have a > printer (Lexmark T620) before that continued to print the same pages until the > job was canceled. This sounds very strange. Before we start devising wild theories, could you double check this result, in the following manner: 1) make a simple text file of about 90 lines (1 page and a half) 2) print it on the queue that doesn't have -H transparent 3) report on the behavior 4) include answers to the unanswered questions below For purposes of this experiment, page 1 is the first one to emerge from the printer. Please don't take offense that I find the report hard to believe. If I got those results, I would go back and double check myself. > When I configured using the command: > > # ppad ppd bby451903nw03 “HP LaserJet 4000 Series” > > I got following error message: > Warning: /usr/share/ppr/lib/mfmodes.conf have no matching clause! Some filters > may not work correctly. > > But I checked /usr/share/ppr/lib/mfmodes.conf file and did find an entry: > HP LaserJet 4000 Series:*:*:600dpi:ljfive > HP LaserJet 4000 Series:*:*:1200dpi:ljfzzz The problem is that the PPD doesn't have a *DefaultResolution line. It doesn't matter unless you will be asking PPR to format TeX files. If it bugs you, add this to the PPD file: *DefaultResolution: 600dpi > > * Is there any delay between copies? > > > > * Does the command > > ppop alerts ppad show bby451903nw03-ps > > show any interesting messages? These questions are very important, particularly the second one. You see, it is possible that the job is failing and being restarted again and again. If it is, something should show up in the ppop alerts output.