[Pkg-hpijs-devel] ghostscript: prints extra blank page

[Till Kamppeter]

You can use the "cupsfilter" utility to run filter chains manually to 
find out which filter breaks things.

    Till

On 02/15/2011 12:44 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> brian m. carlson wrote:
>
>> When I print a file with ghostscript 9, I always get a blank page
>> printed first.  Then my document prints normally.
> [...]
>> The printer I am using is an Officejet 4500.  I also see this problem
>> with a Deskjet 5740.  Both of these printers use the hplip/hpijs
>> functionality, although one uses the full hplip (with the hp backend)
>> and the other uses just the ppds (with the usb backend); these printers
>> are on two different machines.  While this is not terrible, it is
>> inconvenient and quite irksome when I'm printing twenty copies of
>> something.
>
> Cc-ing the hplip maintainers for ideas.
>
> What would be most useful for debugging: do you know any way to
> detect the blank page in the output (using gs -sOutputFile) without
> using an actual printer?  With that information, it should be
> possible to bisect using the upstream ghostscript repo[1].
>
> Thanks for reporting,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] git://git.ghostscript.com/ghostscript.git
>
>