Acrobat printing problems (solved)

Hi Folk
I'm getting on well with Arch apart from one problem, I can not print from Acrobat reader, it accepts the command and does precisely nothing, the jobs are appearing in cups but not being printed, I can print from Open Office and test print from cups but no cooperation with acrobat, anyone have any ideas? thanks
Pete
Last edited by pete051 (2009-09-29 19:14:12)

I don't know what DE are you using. In my case, I use xfce and when acroread starts with his stupidity I just change the print command to 'xfprint'. That forces acroread to redirect the print job to xfce's printing frontend, and problem solved.
Now, if you're using kde, I guess there is something named 'kdeprint', 'kprint' or similar. For gnome, I've no idea.
I hope this helps.
p.s. Sometimes, cups takes his time to print. When its taking too long I purge cups' temp files and restart the daemon.
Last edited by kjon (2009-09-25 00:32:23)

Similar Messages

Printer Problem Solved!

I was happily printing valentines for my grandchildren when all of a sudden my Epson Stylus N11 would not go. The printer icon in the dock bobbled and the message said the printer did not recognize the ink cartridges! Very weird. So I turned the printer off and on and then when I tried to print the message said the computer was unable to communicate with the printer. Restarting my iMac did nothing.
That was very alarming. Did this mean the printer was malfunctioning? Would I need to go out and buy a new one?
Then I went to my preferences in my home folder and deleted everything that said printer or Epson. Restarted the computer. Problem solved! The symptoms seemed to indicate a problem with the printer itself, fortunately it was not. I thought this might be useful to share.

Hello Lars,
i agree with you that the v2.00 of the UFR2 driver works. I have been recommending it for a while now in this forum.
However, during my testing I found that it did not always work perfectly on 10.6 and it did not support all the models of Canon iR. So while it is currently working to your iRC4580, it may not be your final solution because it was not designed to work with 10.6 and I just wanted to make others who read your post aware of this.
Also, because the driver does not officially support 10.6, I was suggesting this as an explanation why Canon
Europe had not posted the same.
One final note. For the sake of other readers If the iRC4580 had an imagePASS-H1 print controller attached, rather than using the internal Canon board, then the UFR2 driver cannot be used.
Hope this clears things up. Like I said, I wasn't disagreeing with you. i was just trying to answer some of the items you raised.
Pahu

Acrobat printing problems in Yosemite

I am having problems printing since I installed Yosemite (I am now on 10.10). I am using Acrobat reader 10.1.12. The printing is slow or it just stops after a few lines on the page. The printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909g tells me it has printed 100% but it hasn't. It does not have problems with other applications e.g. Excel, but I do get the same problem if I try to print the document from Preview.

Would you believe it, it has started to behave itself!! Suddenly!! I did not change a thing. I am convinced there is a gremlin in the system who doesn't like being complained about. I will monitor this gremlin and resubmit this as a question if it starts again. Sorry to trouble you.

Printing problems SOLVED!!!

MP with 10.5 connected to G4 Dual 1.25 with 10.4.7 via direct enet cable, with airport also available. Epson SP 960 connected to G4.
Had no problems adding shared printers after Leopard upgrade. But when I tried to print, unless airport was on on both machines the MP could not find the printer. And even if airport was on, on both of them, it took forever (OK seemed like forever - but was actually several minutes) to "connect" and finally actually print the document. Printing was instantaneous when both machines were on Tiger. Was driving me nuts, but since I could print I was counting myself lucky.
On reading the printing threads here I found this thread:
+http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1203691&tstart=0+
... Adding "BrouseProtocols all" to the CUPS config file ... This solved my trouble immediately!
If yu are having printing difficulties see the above thread!
Thanks so much Allesandro and Christian!

Oops! "... Adding "BrouseProtocols all" "
- that should be ... "BrowseProtocols all"

Indesign & Acrobat printing problem

for some strange reason I have started getting an error when trying to print from Adobe Indesign and Acrobat. the error is 'Opening Raster File Failed'. this problem only started last week. I have not updated or changed anything on the programs or my system. I tried re-adding the printer and that did not help. neither did restarting my computer. I can still print from Preview or Photoshop but not from Acrobat or Indesign.
any ideas?

Yes, post your question in an Adobe discussion group, and not an Apple group.
-Dennis

Wireless Canon printer problem - solved

My household has 2 MacBook Pros that suddenly stopped being able to print to my Canon MX870 printer/multi-function device wirelessly ("Support code: 300" was the error message I got). After many hours of the chicken dances of turning things off and on (modem, router, Mac, printer, etc), and lots of other attempted solutions,* I found one place on the Canon support webpage that said to try UNPLUGGING the printer for at least 10 seconds to actually re-set it. Folks, this solved the problem, at least for the moment. Hooray! *One other solution I tried was replacing some of the ink cartridges. Apparently, they can appear to be dry even with ink in them (esp. if you haven't used the printer in a while -- and I also live in a fairly dry climate), and in some cases as stated elsewhere in the Apple support community, that dryness can cause a communication problem for the printer. That didn't solve it for me, but I offer that in case it might work for you.

Hello Lars,
i agree with you that the v2.00 of the UFR2 driver works. I have been recommending it for a while now in this forum.
However, during my testing I found that it did not always work perfectly on 10.6 and it did not support all the models of Canon iR. So while it is currently working to your iRC4580, it may not be your final solution because it was not designed to work with 10.6 and I just wanted to make others who read your post aware of this.
Also, because the driver does not officially support 10.6, I was suggesting this as an explanation why Canon
Europe had not posted the same.
One final note. For the sake of other readers If the iRC4580 had an imagePASS-H1 print controller attached, rather than using the internal Canon board, then the UFR2 driver cannot be used.
Hope this clears things up. Like I said, I wasn't disagreeing with you. i was just trying to answer some of the items you raised.
Pahu

Canon printer problem solved

I am still frustrated, that Canon has not yet solved the driver problems with my printer (IRC 4580)
I was browsing Sunday evening, and via Google I ended on Canon Australia's website:
http://www.canon.com.au/drivers/
And suddenly I found a full list of drivers for OSX 10.6 including my printer. I have installed, it and it works for all post copy handling systems on the printer (booklet, stables, punching etc.).
Perhaps Canon can find a way to communicate this for the rest of the world.
Best regards
Lars Kristensen
Denmark

Hello Lars,
i agree with you that the v2.00 of the UFR2 driver works. I have been recommending it for a while now in this forum.
However, during my testing I found that it did not always work perfectly on 10.6 and it did not support all the models of Canon iR. So while it is currently working to your iRC4580, it may not be your final solution because it was not designed to work with 10.6 and I just wanted to make others who read your post aware of this.
Also, because the driver does not officially support 10.6, I was suggesting this as an explanation why Canon
Europe had not posted the same.
One final note. For the sake of other readers If the iRC4580 had an imagePASS-H1 print controller attached, rather than using the internal Canon board, then the UFR2 driver cannot be used.
Hope this clears things up. Like I said, I wasn't disagreeing with you. i was just trying to answer some of the items you raised.
Pahu

Acrobat printing problem

We have just upgraded to the Acrobat X and are having an issue with printing. A font is printing differently from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat X. As you can see below the acrobat 9 printout looks fine but the X version is filling in on the A's especially?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are the fonts that are being used embedded in the PDF? Are both vector graphics or bitmaps? What application was used to create the PDF and what versions of software?

Acrobat Printing Problems

Whenever I try to print an Acrobat document, Acrobat quits "due to type 2 error" with recommendations to backup my data. What can I do to correct this?
PowerPC G3--iMac Mac OS 9.2.x

Hi, Lila -
First, try increasing the Preferred memory allocation for the program (Acrobat or Acrobat Reader) - adding 50% to the original Preferred amount would be a good starting point.
Article #18278 - Assigning More Memory to an Application
Also increase the Preferred memory allocation for the applicable printing software. This can include PrintMonitor, Desktop PrintMonitor, and items like Epson Monitor 3, all of which can be found in the Extensions folder in System Folder; and the desktop printer icon provided desktop printing is active. Doubling the original Preferred amount for those items is a good starting point.
I've found that it is easier to print a PDF as an image rather than as a Postscript file. To make that setting when using LaserWriter 8 as the printing software, open the document you wish to print. Select Print from the File menu; in the Print dialog screen, select Acrobat from the pulldown menu in the upper left (it's the lower of the two pulldown menus, it usually displays "General"). In the middle of the new screen locate "Printing Method:" - select "Print as image" in that pulldown menu.

Printing Problem Solved (Temporary Work-around)

I've posted before, and others have posted here and elsewhere, about problems printing with Aperture since upgrading to Leopard. In my case, it's been with an Epson R1800.
Well, believe it or not, with the help of Epson support on the phone, I've figured this out. First of all, there is definitely a problem with Aperture's (or Leopard's) color management. What used to work (setting a color profile in the Aperture print dialog, and selecting "no color management" in the printer dialog) definitely does not work correctly at this point.
If you want color management, what you have to do is select "System Managed" in the Aperture print dialog, and select (for Epson) "Color Controls - Epson Standard" in the Epson dialog. What this does is select the standard Epson profile for the paper you have selected. For example, if you've chosen Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, the printer driver will use the "SPR1800 Premium Glossy" profile (Epson's standard profile for that paper, assuming you've downloaded it). Of course, that gives you Epson's version of what you want to print. If you have created your own profiles, using a spectrophotometer for example, you need to get the printer driver to apply YOUR profile instead of Epson's.
Here's how to apply your profile: Open Colorsync (in the Utilities folder), and select "Printers" in the Devices menu. Under the printer model, Stylus Photo R1800, in my case, select the profile for the paper you're interested in, say "SPR1800 Premium Glossy", and look on the right side of the window at "Current Profile:". Click the down arrow, and select "Other". Navigate to the profile you've created, and click "Open". This will set the profile you've created as what the printer driver will use when it thinks it's applying the SPR1800 Premium Glossy profile. Set other paper profiles (e.g., "SPR1800 Enhanced Matte") to whatever profile you've created for those papers.
Now, when you select "System Managed" in the Aperture dialog, and "Color Controls - Epson Standard" in the Epson dialog, it will apply your own profile.
Hopefully, Apple will fix the problem with color management, and we'll be able to go back to color management as it was before. In the meantime, this is the only work-around I've found.

I was/am totally a Mac guy, meaning my roots were System 7 based, and my knowledge of all things UNIX is being built slowly as needed in the OS X world. While I can make Photoshop & Aperture (and the GUI portions of OS X) stand on their heads and do backflips for treats I can't, with much conviction, speak on the roots of UNIX drivers. I think, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, that Gutenprint drivers are CUPS 'compatible' drivers, but not necessarily "CUPS" drivers in that they work with other printing platforms as well. Here are some sources of info:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cups.org/
The Gutenprint drivers may be the CUPS drivers for the Epson printer, I don't know for sure. On the Canon site, there are two drivers available for download for the Pro9000. One labeled standard, the other labeled CUPS. By default, when adding the printer, my system uses the CUPS driver. I can actually have the Pro9000 added twice, once with the CUPS driver, once with the standard driver. I spoke with an Canon engineer the other day, and contrary to the advice you get from the standard phone support reps, he told me to definitely use the CUPS driver when printing RAW or 16-bit images from Photoshop or Aperture, as it's the only way to do 16-bit printing.
Message was edited by: KBeat

CUPS Linux-to-Linux printing problems [SOLVED]

I'm having quite a hard time getting my shared Brother HL-2040 to be recognized by another Arch workstation on my LAN.
Solved:
Upon inspecting the config further, I decided to try adding the remote user's account to the local machine and that did the trick. Oy.
Last edited by thayer (2007-11-08 20:05:54)

Oops! "... Adding "BrouseProtocols all" "
- that should be ... "BrowseProtocols all"

Printing Problems with PDF - Adobe Acrobat

Printer - HP Deskjet 3070A
Laptop - Asus Zenbook running Windows 7 Home Premium
Issue: Printing problems with PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Dear All,
Please help!
My printer was working absolutely perfectly until my brother in law recently needed to borrow my printer. He plugged in his laptop running Windows 8 (awful thing that is). Since he did this to print his own PDF, I cannot print mine.
Although all the text will appear on the page perfectly both in the document view and on actual printing, it appears that some of the transparent formatting stuff on a PDF - such as boxes you have to fill in and transparent areas (such as you find on glorious tax forms) are omitted completely. In fact, in their place I was getting a single black dot. Now, after uninstalling and re-installing updates for the printer, windows 7, adobe acrobat reader, etc.etc. I get squat. Just all the text laid out but none of the shading or boxes.
I have tried fiddling with the printer settings; the print as 'photo' option, dpi settings, greyscale - as much as I can think of and I am thoroughly stumped.
In a desperate attempt, I even installed the Universal Printer Drivers - thinking it might have been that. No. All I got was a page of gobbledygook. Consequently, I uninstalled and reinstalled the normal drivers again.
If there are any wonderful people out there with any fabulous ideas about how I can get my shading and boxes back; I'd very much appreciate it. Sadly I have a tax return to fill out (which is already fabulously late) and need my printer to work!
Much appreciation in advance x

Hey there @Reverie!
Thanks for posting on the HP Forums!
I can see that the printer is no longer printing in the correct format after it was plugged into the Windows 8 computer! You mentioned you have run the updates and uninstalled/re-installed the printer software. Have you uninstalled and re-installed the Adobe software? Are you getting the same issue from other programs as well? Are you getting the same issues if you are logged in as a different user on the computer?
I have located the HP Update Software Utility that may be able to help. You can download an run the utility. It may be able to locate any other updates for the printer.
I would also recommend running a disk cleanup on the computer to clear any temporary files and junk files that may be causing some performance or software issues. If you do not know how to run a disk cleanup on the computer please follow this document regarding Delete files using Disk Cleanup. It is recommended to restart the computer after a disk cleanup. After the restart try the print job again!
Let me know if that helped and thanks again for posting on the HP Forums!
Cbert
I work on behalf of HP.
Please click “Accept as Solution” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the “Kudos, Thumbs Up" at the bottom of this post to say “Thanks” for helping!

Acrobat 9 Pro Printing Problem

I have a problem with printing in Acrobat 9 Professional. I am printing to a Canon imageRunner C3220 color laser printer, using PS3 driver. My OS is Windows XP Pro x64 2003 SP2.
Only the first page of multipage PDFs will print. I have checked Acrobat print settings as well as the printer's settings, and all seems to be correct. I sent a sample document to a co-worker and she printed it using Reader without a problem. The majority of the documents I create eventually become PDFs. This would be a serious problem if there is no solution.
Acrobat 8 worked fine. Any help would be appreciated.

Chuck,
I just went to the Canon website. For your printer, some of the printer
boards use Adobe PS3 and some of the printer boards use emulation. Can
you check to see which you have?
>Color Network Multi-PDL Printer Kit- A2 (Optional)
> Processor: Dual Canon Custom Processor 250MHz, Shared
> Standard Memory: 1GB (Std./Max.), Shared
> Hard Disk: 40GB, Shared
> PDL Support: UFR, PCL 5c, PostScript 3 emulation, PDF R1.3
> PostScript Fonts: 136 PostScript Fonts
> PCL Fonts: 80 PCL Roman Fonts, 1 Bitmap, 32 Barcode
> Interface Connections: 10/100 Base-T (RJ-45) (Standard)
>Token Ring, USB Full-Speed (1.1 equivalent) (Optional)
> Protocols Supported: IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, AppleTalk, SMB
> imagePASS- C1 v.2 (Optional)
> Processor: Intel® Mobile Pentium III 850MHz
> Standard Memory: 128MB Standard
> Maximum Memory: 256MB Maximum
> Hard Disk: 20GB
> PDL Support: PCL 5c, Adobe PostScript® 3
> PostScript Fonts: 136 PostScript Fonts
> PCL Fonts: 113 PCL5c Roman Fonts
> Interface Connections: 10/100 Base-T (RJ-45)
>IEEE 1284 Parallel
> Protocols Supported: IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, AppleTalk
> ColorPASS-Z3000 (Optional)
> Processor: Intel® Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz
> Standard Memory: 256 MB SDRAM Standard
> Maximum Memory: 512 MB Maximum
> Hard Disk: 60 GB
> PDL Support: Adobe® PostScript® 3
> PostScript Fonts: 136 Postscript Fonts

HP 1320 Printer with Airport Extreme Problem Solved with Leopard

This may be of interest. I appear to have solved my printing problems using an Airport Extreme with an HP 1320 printer.
It appears that all of the options for the printer must be specified. These options include the "Fit to Page" option in Print&Fax/Options&Supplies/Driver; the "Media Type" in Print/Finishing; the "Printer Resolution", "Resolution Enhancement", and "HPEconoMode" all in Print/Image Quality. If all of these are specified, the printer will print without user intervention.
Hope this helps,
David

There are no specific settings on the Apple router to allow a PC to connect. It broadcasts the same signal for all.
Have you checked the Windows firewall on the PCs to see if that, or possibly the anti-virus software is blocking the attempted connection?
I've had both XP and Vista machines, and in each case I had to go into the Firewall settings to tell the application to "allow" the connection that was being blocked. No problems at all after that. Not sure if this is your issue or not, but it would be the first place I would look.

Solved Freehand 10 Printing Problem

Apparently all that was needed was to reselect the printer in the Mac System Print & Fax Preferences. Freehand now prints as well as it ever did.
I deleted the old printer and found and reinstalled the Epson 88 and now all is well with Freehand. I locked the Print & Fax window!
Although the Epson was selected it was apparently not identified as the active printer. Rebooting the printer selection process ended the troubles. Very simple after trying every other imaginable solution.
Hopefully this may help others using Leopard 10.5.8 who are experiencing printer problems.

Effectively, downgrading to cups-1.5.3-6 solves the problem.
I followed the instructions at Downgrading Packages for downgrading, downloaded cups-1.5.3-6 from the Arch Rollback Machine, installed it with "sudo #pacman -U cups-1.5.3-6-i686.pkg.tar.xz" and restarted the Cups service (#sudo rc.d restart cupsd).
The whole process took about 10 minutes including print testing. No rebooting was necessary.
For me, this is amazing considering that this is my fourth day with Arch.
Thank you very much!

Acrobat printing problems (solved)

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for