hi, I have a usb printer (Brother HL-1440) at home which I share between my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) and my desktop (Apple Bue-and-White G3). Since I usually only have one computer on at a time, the printer isn't networked; instead I simply unplug it from one computer and throw it into the other when I need it.
On the laptop (running debian sarge/sid) the printer works perfectly. When I boot into MacOS 9.2 on the desktop, the printer once again works perfectly. But using debian Sid(PowerPC) on the desktop, I get strange and unpredictable errors. 3 or 4 pages may print perfectly, followed by half a page, a line or two of non-alphanumeric characters (mostly smiley faces and playing-card suits like hearts, clubs, spades...), then a page break, the next section of the page, more garbage, and then maybe the rest of the page. In some cases I can pretty reliably count on particular pages to print poorly; in others the errors are non-reproducible. I've checked all the USB connections and they seem to work pretty well; and as I said, the printer works perfectly when I boot into MacOS. Using OpenOffice, I compared the .ps files prduced when printing one particularly troublesome file. The file produced on my laptop (which works perfectly) was identical to the one produced on my desktop. Then I compared the /var/log/cups/error_log's on the two machines -- the output was nearly identical, with slight version differences in foomatic-rip and a couple of minor configuration differences in the ppd's; I apt-got and edited the ppd's on the desktop, but still to no avail. Where should I look next? I don't know how else to diagnose this issue. thanks as always, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
