Same thing just worked for me using a LexMark e232 laser jet. I was getting strings of gibberish characters -- what you used to see back in the day when the printer didn't have enough memory to process the postscript job. The lpadmin command fixed it. I'm running Ubuntu 15.10 so I'm wondering how something that was identified 4 years ago as an issue is still a problem -- and it's been literally months of off-and-on trying to debug this until I finally found this thread today. I'd resorted to just printing via Windows in Virtualbox since I didn't have time to keep screwing with it.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872483 Title: laser printer only prints first job correct Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in cups source package in Oneiric: Won't Fix Status in cups source package in Precise: Fix Released Bug description: please also refer to this bug - this seems to be exactly my issue and does not seem to be solved. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db/+bug/855412 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 - all updates as of today applied. I followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic- db/+bug/855412/comments/20 I printed two copies of the same document, since this forces the error easily. The content under /var/spool/cups/d... look fine - see attached files. after cupsenable <PRINTER> the first copy comes out fine - the second as random character - I stopped after some pages. The test is with Samsung ML-2250 Series (SPL II) - which worked fine under all previous versions of Ubuntu Samsung ML-2250 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended) generates basically the same result. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/872483/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
