Printers on the network

[Lorenzo Luengo]

Bart Silverstrim escribió:
> Occasionally I try printing a PDF and it appears to get "stuck" in the 
> queue, processing for 10, 20, 30 minutes or more, and then a 
> notification balloon appears in my top panel bar with the printer icon 
> telling me that the printer may be disconnected from the network or not 
> connected.
>
> The printer still pings on the network, and it's happened with a couple 
> printers (although the most recent was using an HP LJ5000). I suspect 
> something has gone wrong with the rendering of the print job, but I'm 
> not finding the stuck process.
>
> I tried "sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart", no error, but still won't print.
>
> Anyone else have a workaround or fix for this? Or even experience it? 
> Seems like a restart fixes the problem (and I'm doing a batch of 
> upgrades at the moment so I have to restart now anyway) but insight as 
> to what is happening would be appreciated.
>
>   
I've had the same experience with som documents. This happened when the 
document was a pdf made from LaTeX with 3D postscript figures coming 
from matlab. I suppose it was because the figure shading was drawn using 
very tiny triangles, and they were so many. The pages containing such 
figures also took long time to render on screen also.

If it's the same situation, I'd suggest you change ps figures with jpg 
figures, that are much lighter.

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Lorenzo Luengo Contreras
Administrador de Sistemas DGEO
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción - Chile
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