RedHat 5.1 CUPS problems

[hike]

Not that I do printers often, but

(1) are you using a CUPS supplied drivers or HP's driver/PPD file, or your
own PPD.

For text output, you can write your own PPD.  HP PPD information is fairly
easy to find; IIRC, googling "ppd" & "HP" or the such brought up a lot of
information.

(2) your description could be a font translation problem: document to HP
built-in fonts.
It could also be a page definition error: the margins are different 1" on
one and 1.25" on the other.  The printable area value or the margins appear
to be different.
It appears that your current driver/ppd has an automatically linefeed after
paragraphs.
It could something else entirely.
It could be a combination.

It all this, be thankfully that you are dealing with an HP printer.  Xerox
has VERY little information on their printer (that we used) and it was a
bear to get things right (the printers in question were 3 suites down and
the Oracle Financials consultant didn't understand what information I
needed--it was all trial error on my part).


Personally, I almost always use the generic/laser printer/postscript for
CUPS and have never had a problem.

For HP printers, you can start with the original laserjet driver.  If it
works, you can go through the HP drivers/PPDs until it breaks.  (Or until it
starts working.)



On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Billy Davis <bdavis at cds-corp.com> wrote:

> We are trying to upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise 3 to Red Hat Enterprise
> 5.1 and everything was going great until we tried to print with CUPS.  We
> have both the old and new Red Hat servers networked into the same HP4250
> LaserJet.  Our applications are identical on both systems.  When we try to
> print a portrait form with CUPS 1.1 on the old Server, it prints fine.  But,
> when we try to print the same form on the new server with CUPS 1.2, the
> lines start wrapping at about column 71.  Also, forms that contain both
> CR+LF print double spaced under CUPS 1.2, but they print fine under CUPS
> 1.1.
>
> We have compared the actual print file from both servers, and they are the
> same, so obviously CUPS is acting differently.
>
> We are setup for 6lpi and 12cpi.  For 3 days we have been changing
> settings, but nothing seems to help.  Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> BDavis
>
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