Samsung ML-1610 User Manual

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S

OLVING

P

ROBLEMS

5.20

How do I specify the IP

address of my SMB

server?

It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialog of the

configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing

system. Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn’t allow to

specify the IP address of SMB printers, so you will have to

be able to browse the resource with Samba in order to be

able to print.

Some documents come

out as white pages when

printing.

Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with

Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have some known

bugs when processing the PostScript output from some

applications. Try upgrading to the latest version of CUPS

(at least 1.1.14). Some RPM packages for most popular

distributions are provided as a convenience with this Linux

Printing Package.

I have CUPS and some

options (such as N-up)

seem to be always

enabled even though I

don’t pick them in LLPR.

There may be some local options defined in your ~/

.lpoptions file, which is manipulated by the lpoptions

command. These options will always be used if not

overridden by LLPR settings. To get rid of all options for a

printer, run the following command, replacing “printer”

with the name of the queue: lpoptions -x printer.

I configured a printer to

print to a file, but I get

“Permission denied”

errors.

Most printing systems will not run as the super-user but as

a special user (usually “lp”). Therefore, make sure that the

file you have chosen to print to is accessible to the user

owning the spooler daemon.

On my PCL (or SPL)

printer, I sometimes get

error messages printing

instead of my document.

Unfortunately, some Unix applications may generate non-

compliant PostScript output that may not be supported by

Ghostscript, or even the printer itself in PostScript mode.

You can try to capture the output to a file and view the

results with Ghostscript (gv or ghostview will allow you to

do so interactively) and see if you get error messages.

However, since the application is at probably fault, contact

your software vendor to inform them of the issue.

Problem

Possible Cause and Solution

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