On Tue 14 May 2013 at 11:03:14 -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: > Here's a crossover problem. > > Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image:
Intriguing! > 1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since recent apt-get update. By design Squeeze is stable, so the only updates you would have got would have been related to security. CUPS, for example, had one a few months ago but it is very, very unlikely to produce a side effect like this. Any idea what your recent update pulled in? And how long ago is it since you updated? > 2. On WinXPSP3 laptop, the same document prints perfectly with the > same printer. A different OS, A different printing system. > Prints the extra letter whether on a No.10 envelope or on 8-1/2x11 > letter paper. > Letter is always uppercase, but not always the same letter. Always same place. > > Document looks perfect on both 'puters. Also prints the extra letter > if I convert to PDF and print that from Document Viewer. Document is > several years old and never printed like this before. What application produces the PDF? What do you see if you view the PDF? > Application is OpenOffice.org (3.0 on debian, 3.3 on WinXP). > > Debian PC prints through CUPS interface via hardwired ethernet; > WinXP laptop prints through wireless ethernet. Printer is HP P1505n > laserjet. What PPD/driver are you using? > I also asked this question on the OO forum. A URL would be useful to track responses. -- 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/20130514183736.GC25306@desktop