[K12OSN] Fonts printing wrong

[Peter Scheie]

Have you tried printing to a Postscript file and then looking at that in a PS viewer? 
You can do that remotely.  If it looks okay there, then it suggests a printer problem. 
If not, then somethings funny with cups or some other printer setup aspect.

Petre

Shawn Powers wrote:
> I have a K12LTSP 5.0 installation, and this morning, I have a printer 
> that is not rendering fonts correctly.  Even the cups test page prints 
> "like the fonts are printed with an old dot matrix printer"
> 
> To add great difficulty to the situation, I'm not physically onsite, so 
> I can SSH in, or use VNC over my VPN, but I can't look at the 
> printouts.  I'm not even sure if other printers are doing it.  (not 
> being there really makes troubleshooting rough)
> 
> Does this sound remotely familiar to anyone?  I tried simple things like 
> restarting the cups service, but that didn't do anything useful.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Shawn
> 
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