[K12OSN] Fonts printing wrong
Peter Scheie
peter at scheie.homedns.org
Thu Mar 15 15:54:16 UTC 2007
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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