pnm2ppa - HP PPA GhostScript printfilter

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5 pnm2ppa fails to work for Deskjet 712C - ID: 873473

Last Update: Comment added ( dooglio )

Details:

I cannot get my Deskjet 712C to work with my Linux
system. Here is the command I used to test:

ls -l | enscript -M a4 -o - | pstopnm | pnm2ppa -s a4
--verbose -bw -i - -o - | lpr -l

I get the following output:

pstopnm: Writing ppmraw file
[ 1 pages * 1 copy ] left in -
1 lines were wrapped
pnm2ppa: Starting print job
pnm2ppa[10658]: initImage(): Printer cannot print on
paper size 569x788 @600dpi
pnm2ppa: No pages printed!
pstopnm: Ghostscript process died due to a signal 13.

What can I do to correct this? I can't find any switch
anywhere which allows me to force the output
resolution. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Submitted:

Doug Barbieri ( dooglio ) - 2004-01-09 02:23

Priority:

Status:

Closed

Resolution:

Invalid

Assigned:

Nobody/Anonymous

Category:

Crash/Freeze

Group:

Critical

Visibility:

Public

Comments ( 2 )

Date: 2004-01-25 21:20 Sender: dooglio Logged In: YES user_id=164266 I actually figured it out! It had nothing to do with pnm2ppa. I needed to install the foomatic.rip package. It's a perl script which for some reason I couldn't find in Debian at all. I turned on LogLevel=debug in the cups server package, and found it was halting print jobs because it couldn't find "foomatic-rip." Anyway, I found this nice URL on LinuxPrinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html It mentioned that I should download and install the foomatic-filters source package (http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-3.0.0.tar.gz) in order to get my printer to work with Debian. I downloaded the tarball, ran the make-configure and configure scripts, compiled it then installed it and voila! I can now print from CUPS! Anyway, just thought I'd pass that one along. :-) -Doug
Date: 2004-01-12 07:42 Sender: duncan_haldane Logged In: YES user_id=5644 The pstopnm use is probably not valid. I've never seen that used. Papersize 569x788 looks very wrong to me. Presumably this is garbage input to pnm2ppa from an incorrect use of pstopnm? Your problems are due to some Ghostscript problems, not pnm2ppa. Read the pnm2ppa docs for how to do it right using gs + pnm2ppa But its best to use a linux printing system like CUPS or lprng (foomatic knows how to properly call gs and pnm2ppa) that way you dont need to know about the pnm2ppa details. Good luck!

Date: 2004-01-25 21:20
Sender: dooglio

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user_id=164266

I actually figured it out! It had nothing to do with pnm2ppa.

I needed to install the foomatic.rip package. It's a perl
script which for some reason I couldn't find in Debian at
all. I turned on LogLevel=debug in the cups server package,
and found it was halting print jobs because it couldn't find
"foomatic-rip."

Anyway, I found this nice URL on LinuxPrinting.org:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html

It mentioned that I should download and install the
foomatic-filters source package
(http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-3.0.0.tar.gz)
in order to get my printer to work with Debian. I downloaded
the tarball, ran the make-configure and configure scripts,
compiled it then installed it and voila! I can now print
from CUPS!

Anyway, just thought I'd pass that one along. :-)

-Doug

Date: 2004-01-12 07:42
Sender: duncan_haldane

Logged In: YES
user_id=5644

The pstopnm use is probably not valid. I've never seen that
used.

Papersize 569x788 looks very wrong to me. Presumably this
is garbage input to pnm2ppa from an incorrect use of pstopnm?

Your problems are due to some Ghostscript problems,
not pnm2ppa. Read the pnm2ppa docs for how to do it right
using gs + pnm2ppa

But its best to use a linux printing system like CUPS or lprng
(foomatic knows how to properly call gs and pnm2ppa)
that way you dont need to know about the pnm2ppa details.
Good luck!

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