Is it the same physical box (I'm guessing no based on 4x processor improvement)? The speed thing makes me thing the printer port type has changed. (SPP, EPP, or ECP from slowest to fastest). That's usually set in the motherboard bios. Obviously that won't matter if it's printing remotely, but if the printer is local, that's where I'd bet my money. Kev.
-----Original Message----- From: Roy Souther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:42 PM To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] Why does changing the distro mess up CUPS? I upgraded a server from Mandrake 10 to Debian, setup CUPS to use the same printer drives for the OKI Data 9 pin. The printing is of by about 6cm to the left now and I cannot move the paper on the roller any more to make it line up again. I ran an md5sum on the ppd file s in /etc/cups/ppd and found they are exactly the same on the Debian system as they are on the Mandrake one. This has happened before with an OpenOffice document that I used to print labels, after upgrading from Mandrake to Suse on my desktop that time the labels were way off and not just from the side but also from the top and I think in scale also. Any idea why cups would do this or how I can fix it? The customer is not happy with the new Debian system because they need to columns to line up on the pre-printed invoice sheets. I was thinking that maybe cups is using an external font to generate the output but I cannot find any indication in the code that it is using an external font file, but this would make sense because people are also complaining that the new server is printing much slower now even though the CPU is four times fasts and has a lot more RAM. The server runs faster and the print job starts fine but the head of the 9 pin printer moves much slower. WTFIUWT? What other config files should I look at that may affect the layout and speed of printing from cups? Royce Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG.
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