CentOS 7: Printing Four Copies With Libreoffice Prints Garbage

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I have a Xerox Phaser 3250 printer

It worked perfectly under CentOS 6 when I told cups that it was a Xerox Phaser 3150.

It works under CentOS 7, too. I can print pdf files from evince and whatnot with no problems, and printing one, two or three copies of a document from libreoffice works as well.

However, if I tell libreoffice to print four copies of a document (“number of copies” =4) then I get garbage printed on the printer; many many pages containing one or two lines of garbage characters.

If I run the spadmin program and tell it to print a test page, it prints fine. Two test pages, fine. Three, also fine. Four test pages, and I get page after page after page of garbage again.

What could the problem be?

2 thoughts on - CentOS 7: Printing Four Copies With Libreoffice Prints Garbage

  • Try to use generic postscript driver (if the driver for your model of printer is not available).

    Thanks. Valeri
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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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  • Valeri Galtsev wrote:

    Please don’t top post.

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    That’s postscript garbage. You’re lucky if you don’t get 100 or 200 pages of garbage. So, yeah, it’s a postscript issue.

    Yes. Or try other Phasers – hopefully, you won’t mind the smell of hot wax…. while finding one that works.

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