Re: [hpoj-devel] Driver probllem with PSC 2510

[Ed W. <li...@wi...>]

Ed Wildgoose wrote:

> Cory Meisch wrote:
>
>> I think your suspicions are right. This sounds like an issue with the
>> gs/footmatic portion. Please check your logs and let me know of any
>> error messages that you see...
>>
>
> I'm a bit lost at sea about how to do this though...?  I have nothing 
> at all in my log files (other than the startup event of ptal, etc), 
> perhaps I'm not logging everything though...?  What's the default 
> logging level?  Should I need to beef it up to catch such 
> problems...?  For example I'm logging lpr.* and not seeing anything in 
> there at all?


OK, cancel that last bit.  Now I partly understand why I am being a muppet.

OK, following the (obvious now) instructions at: 
http://www.cups.org/cups-help.html - I enable LogLevel debug in 
cups.conf and now I get a whole spew of stuff in the cups log.

Significant bits seem to be:

D [25/Mar/2004:01:29:07 +0000] [Job 41] PPD file: /etc/cups/ppd/HP.ppd
D [25/Mar/2004:01:29:07 +0000] [Job 41] Printer model: HP PSC 2500 
Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)

(Is that correct for the PSC2510?)

Then it all looks good up until a warning about perl locales not being 
set (but I assume this is not actually a real issue?), and then:

D [25/Mar/2004:01:29:07 +0000] [Job 41] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' 
'-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs' 
'-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD' 
'-sDeviceModel=deskjet 5550' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612' 
'-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792' '-dDuplex=false' '-r300' 
'-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=0,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2' 
'-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [25/Mar/2004:01:29:07 +0000] [Job 41] Error: /invalidfont in findfont
D [25/Mar/2004:01:29:07 +0000] [Job 41] Operand stack:
D [25/Mar/2004:01:29:07 +0000] [Job 41] bigFont   Helvetica-Bold   
Font   Helvetica-Bold   382791   Helvetica-Bold   --nostringval--   
Courier   (Courier)   Courier

Which looks like the problem.  (note it did successfully run the 
previous "renderer command: gs -q ...etc..." command successfully, this 
is the second command after all the parsing stuff.

and then finally I get "ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, 
exit code 1".

It's nearly 2am here, so need to stop now.  Thanks very much to those 
who offered advice - sorry for the noise.  If anyone has any tips on how 
to isolate and debug this font issue then that would be appreciated.

Thanks all

Ed W