network printing 10.5 canon mp530 errors

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network printing 10.5 canon mp530 errors

lovely stuff ... error when printing to a shared canon mp530 printer attached to a Windows Home Server 2k3.

System
%%[ Error: underfined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

OR sometimes we get this lovely thing ...

Error: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: languaglelevel

STACK:

/L3?
false

WHAT the heck is going on here ... all PCs can print .. appletalk is installed and forwarded .. so .. what is up?

mac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 15, 2008 7:43 PM

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PAHU

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Apr 16, 2008 1:06 AM in response to tboom

The prints you are getting are showing postscript commands. This indicates that you have selected a postscript driver on the Mac, however the MP530 is not capable of printing postscript.

What you need to do is go to Sourceforge and download the Gutenprint driver set for Mac OS X. Without checking I believe that version 5.1.7 supports the MP530.

With this driver set installed, you can select the Canon MP530 Gutenprint 5.1.7 in the Print Using menu instead of Generic Postscript, or whatever postscript driver you currently have selected.

PaHu

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PAHU

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Apr 16, 2008 1:15 AM in response to PAHU

Woops. Just checked the Gutenprint page. v5.1.7 supports the MP520, not the MP530. So replace 530 with 520 in my previous post. Hopefully the 520 driver will work with the 530. Sometimes they are not fully compatible.

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