On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:32 PM Marco Guazzone
<marco.guazzone(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:05 AM Marco Guazzone
> <marco.guazzone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I am having trouble in printing from Fedora. I have tried two
>> different network printers without success.
>>
>> Specifically, if I print a test page (in XFCE, open the "Print
Settings"
>> application and click on the "Print Test Page"), cups says that the
page
>> has been printed successfully:
>>
>> Sep 17 10:27:33 wildcat cupsd[799]: UPO-KyoceraKM3035-LotB sguazt 172
>> [17/Sep/2018:10:27:33 +0200] 1 1 - localhost Test Page - -
>> Sep 17 10:27:34 wildcat cupsd[799]: REQUEST localhost - - "POST /
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 364 Create-Printer-Subscriptions successful-ok
>>
>> But the printer does not receive any data.
>>
>> My system is an up-to-date Fedora 28 x86_64 (kernel:
>> 4.18.7-200.fc28.x86_64).
>> Last time I have successfully printed to these printers from Fedora was
>> Sep 12, 2018.
>> The printers work without problems under Windows 7.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marco
>>
>
>
> For you interest, a downgrade of cups from ver. 2.2.6-22 to ver. 2.2.6-14
> does not solve the problem.
>
> Marco
>
Solved!
After downgrading ghostscript from from 9.24-1 to 9.23-1, I am able to
print again.
See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629086
Best,
Marco
I recently posted here about what sounds like the same issue. I used
lpadmin to switch from gs to cairo backend, IIRC, which sounds like a
longterm win anyway to me.