On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:43:54 +0000, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:30:54 +0000 (UTC), noela...@gmail.com replied: > >> You can add another printer (I mean, another stanza for the same >> printer, your "Phaser 6280DN") from CUPS that uses the desired PPD >> (instead PS, try with PCL5/6 or another generic file) just to use it to >> print jobs from Acrobat Reader. > > I'm not sure what PPD I'd use. With the XP virtual machine, I fixed a > similar problem by switching (at your suggestion) to the PCL > description. However, Xerox doesn't offer a Linux PCL file for this > Phaser.
Mmmm, you're right: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Xerox/Xerox-Phaser_6280 There is only one driver (PS) for linux though the printer supports PCL6 ;-( (trick: you can try with a generic PCL6 driver¹) > What's more baffling to me is why printing from acroread just stopped > working. Neither the PPD nor any of the acroread packages have changed > since I built Wheezy five months ago. I noted on June 24th that > printing from acroread worked, and I think it only stopped working a > week or two ago. There have been some updates for CUPS, IIRC. Anyway, just for printing can't you use another PDF reader, like Evince or Okular :-? http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Generic/Generic-PCL_6_PCL_XL_Printer Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.09.16.53...@gmail.com
