Old Lexmark 4039 "Flushing Buffer" (Linux)

[SteeveM]

First, excuse my bad english, my first language is french! Thanks.

I have a very annoying problem with a Lexmark 4039 10 Plus in Linux
(Redhat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2). When I try to print with the
PostScript driver from linux (Tried both Generic driver and Lexmark driver
included with MDK and RH) the printer pannel is printing "Flushing Buffer"
and nothing happen after (no print). I must say by the way that I've been
able to print whith this printer in linux 4-5 test pages... but it's like it
forget is setup and refuse to work after. I don't understand what's
happened very well. (I'm the only one to use this comp. / printer.)

After some readings I know that is a problem with the postscript data
sended to the printer which is not as expected.

I've visited the Lexmark web site without finding great answers.

Anyone have a clue or tried / used this printer in Linux?
How can I setup Linux to correctly send the data?
Anyone have a pdf of the original user book for this Lexmark?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
SteeveM

 

[Sylvester]

sorry, i have no experience with Linux
but why do you send postscript to this printer ?

 

[Wayne Ware]

I believe the postscript option for the 4039 series of printers was
Postscript Level 1. If you are trying to send Level 2 or Level 3 it
will not recognize it and will result in a "flushing buffer" situation.

 

[SteeveM]

The Lexmark 4039 10 plus is working in PCL5 or PostScript Level 2.
My Linux drivers are only offering PostScript. In the printer setup windows,
It's possible for me to check 2 options : Prepare Postcript, Convert Text
in Postscript. And Ghostscript pre-filtering is set to "Convert to PS
level2". I've played a lot with different combination without any positive
result.

It's very frustrating because this printer is just perfectly working in
W*ndows... but I need / want it in Linux.

Thanks again,
Steeve

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:10:23 +0000, Wayne Ware a écrit :

 

[Michael]

First, excuse my bad english, my first language is french! Thanks.

I have a very annoying problem with a Lexmark 4039 10 Plus in Linux
(Redhat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2). When I try to print with the
PostScript driver from linux (Tried both Generic driver and Lexmark driver
included with MDK and RH) the printer pannel is printing "Flushing Buffer"
and nothing happen after (no print). I must say by the way that I've been
able to print whith this printer in linux 4-5 test pages... but it's like it
forget is setup and refuse to work after. I don't understand what's
happened very well. (I'm the only one to use this comp. / printer.)

After some readings I know that is a problem with the postscript data
sended to the printer which is not as expected.

I've visited the Lexmark web site without finding great answers.

Anyone have a clue or tried / used this printer in Linux?
How can I setup Linux to correctly send the data?
Anyone have a pdf of the original user book for this Lexmark?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
SteeveM

Problem appears to be with your Linux driver, if a given document prints
under Win but not under Linux. I used the predecessor of your printer,
a 4029, for 8 years, and saw the "flushing ..." thing whenever the
amount of data going to the printer was too large to fit in the
printer's RAM. If your printer's RAM isn't alread maxed out, maybe
putting in more RAM would solve your problem.

 

[Sylvester]

Problem appears to be with your Linux driver, if a given document prints
under Win but not under Linux. I used the predecessor of your printer,
a 4029, for 8 years, and saw the "flushing ..." thing whenever the
amount of data going to the printer was too large to fit in the
printer's RAM. If your printer's RAM isn't alread maxed out, maybe
putting in more RAM would solve your problem.

won't you rather try a PCL5 driver ?