Kyocera FS-1700+ Problem

gregor · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:34 am Post subject: Kyocera FS-1700+ Problem

Hi all,

I have a Kyocera FS-1700+ Laserprinter, which is connected to a D-LINK 713P Router with Printserver... I installed CUPS and Foomatic with the German Gentoo Printer HOWTO. If I print a testpage, I only get an output of an diagonal Text, which tells me something about the printing Options. (I know, that the Printer is not damaged, because I can print via the Printserver on the Windows machine of my Girlfriend.)

Now my Problem: I can't print anything from OpenOffice, the acrobat reader and so on.

I get the same Problem, if I connect the Printer locally via the parallel port.

So I don't think it is the printservers fault.

Hopefully someone can help me...

greets

greg
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henrico · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 25

Did you use a generated ppd or the ppd from linuxprinting.org?
(http://linuxprinting.org/download/PPD/Kyocera/current/FS-1700+.ppd)

If cups can find the ppd, you should only have to select the right printer and options in the web-interface to get everything working. All programs can access the printer as a postscript printer, but I haven't tried open office with my printer yet.

gregor · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject:

I tried the .ppd shipped with foomatic and the .ppd of your link.

I also tried something else a few weeks ago:

I directly connected the Printer to a SuSE Linux system, which I used as a printserver via SAMBA. When I printed a testpage with Yast2 I got the same output of the testpage I printed now with Gentoo. Printing from a Windows System via the SuSE Printserver was no Problem.

It looks for me like a driver problem. I will try to generate my own .ppd now. I hope to get it working...

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henrico · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 25

If you want to see if the problem is with cups, you could try to install pdq. If this gives the same error, then I have no idea how to fix it. However, if pdq works, then you can either take cups apart or install a different (newer?) version of cups.

gregor · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tip with pdq. I'll try that.

But I am really confused about Cups, bacause the testpage really looks like a wrong driver for the Printer, although the Printer is an older one and I never read about these Problem with it.

greets

greg
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