I think you discount a kernel problem too lightly. When CUPS has started a print job it has to send it to the printer. In my case over the network. This involves the kernel and or the network driver.
I have just tried the daily build of Ubuntu Gnome - the browser can not find google and ubuntu Budgie - same problem. The ppd file for the printer is present in both distributions. I will re-install Ubuntu tomorrow and try again. 17.04 works perfectly. On 22 August 2017 at 19:08, Till Kamppeter <1712...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > First, the kernel has no influence to printing results. All the printing > logic is happening in user space. > > Please do the following tests and tell in which cases you get useful > printouts (and if so, also tell whether there are quality differences, > the PPD files are ones which you had attached in comment #2, file.pdf is > an arbitrary PDF file): > > lpadmin -p oldppd -E -v ipp://EPSON25B56D.local:631/ipp/print -P > EPSON-WF-3620-Series17-04.ppd > lpadmin -p newppd -E -v ipp://EPSON25B56D.local:631/ipp/print -P > EPSON_WF_3620_series17-10.ppd > > lp -d oldppd -o cupsPrintQuality=Draft file.pdf > lp -d oldppd -o cupsPrintQuality=Normal file.pdf > lp -d oldppd -o cupsPrintQuality=High file.pdf > > lp -d newppd -o cupsPrintQuality=Draft file.pdf > lp -d newppd -o cupsPrintQuality=Normal file.pdf > lp -d newppd -o cupsPrintQuality=High file.pdf > > For these tests please also follow the instructions of the section "CUPS > error_log" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712019 > > Title: > Driverless printing only prints a blank sheet 17.10 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1712019/+subscriptions > -- Rod Jones -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712019 Title: Driverless printing only prints a blank sheet 17.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1712019/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs