[lug] Black bar between pages when printing 2 pages/sheet.

[Thomas DiGennaro]

Printer people!

It is possible to inspect the Postscript and discover the source of the
error.  By hand or with tools.

By hand is for the masochistic or the expert.

 

You can also use a trial version of Adobe Acrobat (free for a month) to look
at the Postscript as a page.

If Acrobat shows the bars - they are in the Postscript output of the printer
driver.  And that is the most likely culprit.  I suspect an error about
background color.

 

I'm a printer software guy from way back.

 

Oz

Now: 4dtext tools for website enhancement.

 

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From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Bruce Long
Sent: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010 8:43 AM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] Black bar between pages when printing 2 pages/sheet.

 

I just tried to print with psnup -4. There are black bars between pages and
sometimes even between lines.

I have tried printing a wide variety of ps and pdf files. Some I have
printed this way on various printers over the years. So I don't believe that
the problem would occur on your printer.




On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Davide Del Vento
<davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't have any clue about this, but have you tried 4 pages/sheet or
more? Just to see if and how the bars appear in those settings, which
might help understand the problem.
I find especially weird that you get it when printing a
single-page/sheet which was manually created by two pages! Have you
tried to print those 2-pages-in-a-single-page files somewhere else? If
not because you don't have other printers, send me the files and I'll
try on a few printers I access with CUPS from Ubuntu.
HTH,
Dav


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:14, Bruce Long <qstream at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a shiny new HP 2320fxi color laser printer which I would like to
use
> to print booklets of source code.
>
> The problem is that when I print any file (e.g., ps or pdf) with two pages
> per sheet I get a thick black bar separating the two pages.
>
> Strangely, this occurs no matter how I try to get two pages/sheet. For
> example, if I rely on CUPS by using "-o number-up=2" I get the black bar.
> But if I use psnup to create a ps file that is already formated to have
two
> pages/sheet I still have the black bar when I print. Interestingly, the
> black bar does NOT show up in print preview or in the evince document
> viewer.
>
> I haven't found any ideas via google. (Though I did find a lot of "Black
> Bar-stools" and "Black Bars")
>
> --
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