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From: rose.wu@utoronto.ca
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:17:00 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: Too many copies of one page printing job

It's Sun Sorlaris 8, and PPR version is 1.44.

Quoting David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu>:

> 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.
> 
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