Printing problems with OO 2.0 and Fedora/SuSE

cincykid · Newbie Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

Hello,

I have a Canon BJC-4200 printer which uses the bjc600 driver. I run Linux, and in the past I have used Fedora Core 3 & 4, and SuSE 9.3. I had no problems printing from Open Office on these distributions. But now I having a problem printing with SuSE 10.0, 10.1 and Fedora 5. The printer installs normally with CUPS. On Fedora 5 I get a perfect test page. Yet when I try to print from OO Writer to the BJC-4200, I get an error message that printing was aborted. I've configured the driver as I always have, and that has no effect. Am I missing something? Any suggestions?

Thanks.

AndrewZ · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject:

Can you print from other apps? In OpenOffice.org, can you print a blank page? Also, check your log files in /var/log/ .

rax369 · General User Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

OMG, this is exactly the same problem I'm having. My problem is also with a Canon BJC-4200. There's a lot of people having this printing issue with OO. People is dealing with different printer models but the general problem it's the same with OO... it simple doesn't print !!

All the jobs I've sent from OO, never were printed, all were marked with the state "aborted" (which is not true, since I never aborted them):

The error associated with all of them is the same:

AndrewZ · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:10 am Post subject:

Vote for this yet-unconfirmed issue:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66381

To vote, basically you...
1. Create an account for the Issue Tracker. (The accounts are separate from OOoForum.org.)
2. Login
3. Go to the issue page.
4. Click Vote for this issue
5. Add up to 2 votes per issue.

rax369 · General User Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

AndrewZ · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:27 am Post subject:

Sure, it may be OOo's fault, or maybe the combination of OOo and the drivers causes a problem.

One way to confirm the issue is to get enough votes (4?), or you can join the OOo QA team. However, the best way to get the problem solved is to include enough information to make it easily reproducible by the developers. For more information about QA, see here:

http://qa.openoffice.org/helping.html

rax369 · General User Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

I'm a newbie trying to learn to use Linux, I chose Suse Linux 10.0 to begin my learning experience.

I'm trying to switch from the MS Windows environment to the Linux World, but the fact of not being able to use a so important application like OO, it's very dissapointing. The OO team should have already fixed this problem a loooong time ago, since it's nothing new. It's not my printer model the problem, there are lots of brands/printers models involved, facing exactly the same problem hence lots of users not being able to print their documents from OO. Since a long time ago.

I dont know the way how can I provide with more info that the one I have provided so far. The way to reproduce the problem is very simple, it doesnt have any complication at all.

In Suse 10.0, you just install OO v2.0, install my printer (Canon BJC-4200, or some of the printer involed in this issue) as you normally install a printer in Suse with the help of YaST2, no fancy commands needed, just a normal and plain installation.

Then try to print something from OO and ... Voila! ... you cannt print thing nothing.

You havent changed or modified something, you have not installed none strange driver, even installing the suggested PPD file from:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-BJC-4200

... it wont work. Mad

If anyone can show me the way how can I provide with more info about this specific problem from LINUX know as "client-error-not-possible", I'll be glad to provide to anyone with more info in order to finally solve this problem.