When doing away with all personal GNOME/GTK configuration solves the problem, the bug is for sure not in the printing stack but somewhere in the print output part of GNOME or GTK. Therefore I move the bug to GTK now. Feel free to move to another GNOME/GTK package or to add tasks.
** Package changed: cups (Ubuntu) => gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - Sending pdf and ps files to a printer routinely fails + Sending pdf and ps files to a printer routinely fails, but removing all personal GNOME/GTK config solves problem -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655422 Title: Sending pdf and ps files to a printer routinely fails, but removing all personal GNOME/GTK config solves problem -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs