User manual XEROX PHASER 3117

[. . . ] About the User Guide This User Guide provides information you need for setting up your printer. It also provides all of the detailed instructions for using your printer and information for maintaining and troubleshooting the printer. The Software User Guide which is the second section of this guide provides information you need for installing the supplied software and using its features. This manual is provided for information purposes only. Xerox Corporation is not responsible for any damages, direct or indirect, arising from or related to use of this manual. [. . . ] Thus if there is already a queue by this name, and if it doesn't have any alias, then you won't be able to change the default. To work around this, you can either delete the queue, or rename it by manually editing the / etc/printcap file. I can't make a printer the system default. 5 SOLVING PROBLEMS 5. 19 Problem The N-up setting does not work correctly for some of my documents. Possible Cause and Solution The N-up feature is achieved through post-processing of the PostScript data that is being sent to the printing system. However, such post-processing can only be adequately achieved if the PostScript data conforms to the Adobe Document Structing Conventions. Problems may arise when using N-up and other features relying on postprocessing if the document being printed isn't compliant. Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the length of the option string that can be passed to the printing system. As such, if you selected a number of different options, the length of the options may be exceeded and some of your choices won't be passed to the programs responsible for implementing them. Try to select less options that deviate from the defaults, to save on memory usage. Most Unix applications that offer a Landscape orientation option in their printing options will generate correct PostScript code that should be printed as is. In that case, you need to make sure that you leave the LLPR option to its default Portrait setting, to avoid unwanted rotations of the page that would result in a cropped output. If the data being sent is in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format, some earlier versions of CUPS (1. 1. 10 and before) have a bug preventing them from being processed correctly. When going through LLPR to print, the Printer Package will work around this issue by converting the data to regular PostScript. However, if your application bypasses LLPR and feeds EPS data to CUPS, the document may not print correctly. To be able to configure and use SMB-shared printers (such as printers shared on a Windows machine), you need to have a correct installation of the SAMBA package that enables that feature. The "smbclient" command should be available and usable on your system. Most Unix applications will expect a command like the regular "lpr" command to be non-interactive and thus return immediately. Since LLPR is waiting for user input before passing the job on to the print spooler, very often the application will wait for the process to return, and thus will appear to be frozen (its windows won't refresh). This is normal and the application should resume functioning correctly after the user exits LLPR. I am using BSD lpr (Slackware, Debian, older distributions) and some options chosen in LLPR don't seem to take effect. I am trying to print a document in Landscape mode, but it prints rotated and cropped. Some pages come out all white (nothing is printed), and I am using CUPS. I can't print to a SMB (Windows) printer. My application seems to be frozen while LLPR is running. 5. 20 SOLVING PROBLEMS Problem How do I specify the IP address of my SMB server? Possible Cause and Solution It can be specified in the "Add Printer" dialog of the configuration tool, if you don't use the CUPS printing system. Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn't allow to specify the IP address of SMB printers, so you will have to be able to browse the resource with Samba in order to be able to print. Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with Mandrake Linux before the 8. 1 release, have some known bugs when processing the PostScript output from some applications. Some RPM packages for most popular distributions are provided as a convenience with this Linux Printing Package. There may be some local options defined in your ~/ . lpoptions file, which is manipulated by the lpoptions command. To get rid of all options for a printer, run the following command, replacing "printer" with the name of the queue: lpoptions -x printer. [. . . ] To access the Configuration Tool: 1 From the Startup Menu icon at the bottom of the screen, select Linux Printer and then Configuration Tool. You can also open this window from the Terminal screen by typing in "linux-config. " The Linux Printer Configuration window shows a list of installed printers in the left pane. The right pane shows a number of tabs that display information regarding the currently selected printer. Select your printer driver, if not currently selected. 2 2 3 You can also access the Linux Printer Configuration window by typing in "linux-config" from the Terminal screen. [. . . ]