Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel B.
charles norwood wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: ... Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which doesn't sound

Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-07 Thread charles norwood
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Felipe Sateler wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > >> Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I > >> posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens > >> of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per

Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel B.
Felipe Sateler wrote: Daniel B. wrote: Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line of text (when printing a plain-text file). I'm taking a _very_ wil

Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
Daniel B. wrote: > Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I > posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens > of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line > of text (when printing a plain-text file). I'm taking a _very_ wild guess here: perh

printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-03 Thread Daniel B.
Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line of text (when printing a plain-text file). Thanks. ---

printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-06-12 Thread Daniel B.
Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and switched to CUPS for printing, I've been getting lots of errors in my printouts. The error pattern is that somewhere in the middle of the printout, there is a spurious "d" character, and right next to the "d" (I think after it) there is a column or two of erron