recently, "Failed to print document, Too many failed attempts"

[cornel panceac]

2009/5/28 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

> On Thursday 28 May 2009 10:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   just recently, i'm having regular trouble printing PDF files thru
> > > "evince", with evince complaining as above.  i used to be able to
> > > throw a 200-page PDF file at the printer but now, i have to do it in 8
> > > and 16 page chunks at a time.  and sometimes, even *that* doesn't
> > > work.
> > >
> > >   is anyone else seeing this?
>

i do, brother 5250 dn.

otoh, since k3b was no longer working on gnome, i switched to kde, and kde's
evince equivalent works without any issue (except maybe the scrambled
graphics, but i don't remember if it was evince or okular in charge). still
f10, here, but not for long. i'll report more after i'll switch to f11 .

>
> >
> >   just to add a bit more detail, i have a brother double-sided
> > printer, and i wanted to print a 182-page PDF file, double-sided and 4
> > images per page.
> >
> >   my first attempt to print the whole thing at once failed as above.
> > i reduced the page sets until i was printing only 8 pages at a time
> > (which would fit on a single sheet of paper).  that strikes me as
> > unnecessarily inconvenient, and i'm pretty sure i used to be able to
> > print sizable documents in one fell swoop.
> >
> >   could it be the printer/printer driver combo?
> >
> Just a thought - you say '4 images per page'.  Have you checked the size of
> those images?  A page with 4 images on, if they are fairly large, would
> take
> a long time to process before printing, and may be causing time-outs.
>  While
> I would expect to be able to send a large document in one go, I'd be
> doubtful
> if it contained so much processing requirement.  HTH
>
> Anne
>
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