Common Macintosh Problems - Dell 1135 Mono Laser User Manual

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The

It is a known problem that occurs when a color machine is used on version 8.51 or earlier of

machine

Ghostscript, 64-bit Linux OS, and has been reported to bugs.ghostscript.com as Ghostscript Bug

does not

688252.The problem is solved in AFPL Ghostscript v. 8.52 or above. Download the latest version of

AFPL Ghostscript from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/ and install it to solve this problem.

whole

pages,

and

output is

printed on

half the

page.

I cannot

Check if Gimp Front-end has Xsane: Device dialog. on the Acquire menu. If not, you should install

scan via

Xsane plug-in for Gimp on the your computer. You can find Xsane plug-in package for Gimp on Linux

Gimp

distribution CD or Gimp home page. For the detailed information, refer to the Help for Linux distribution

Front-end.

CD or Gimp Front-end application.

If you wish to use another kind of scan application, refer to application's Help.

Avoid changing print job parameters (via LPR GUI, for example) while a print job is in progress. Known

encounter

versions of CUPS server break the print job whenever print options are changed and then try to restart

error

the job from the beginning. Since Unified Linux Driver locks the port while printing, the abrupt

"Cannot

termination of the driver keeps the port locked and unavailable for subsequent print jobs. If this

open port

situation occurs, try to release the port by selecting Release port in Port configuration window.

device

file" when

printing a

document.

The

Ensure your machine is attached to your computer, connected properly via the USB port, and is

machine

turned on.

does not

Ensure the scanner driver for your machine is installed in your system. Open Unified Linux Driver

appear on

configurator, switch to Scanners configuration, then press Drivers. Make sure that driver with a

the

name corresponding to your machine's name is listed in the window.

scanners

Ensure the port is not busy. Since functional components of machine (printer and scanner) share

list.

the same I/O interface (port), the situation of simultaneous access of different user applications to

the same port is possible. To avoid possible conflicts, only one of them at a time is allowed to gain

control over the device. The other user will encounter "device busy" response. This usually happens

when starting a scan procedure. An appropriate message box appears.

To identify the source of the problem, open the Ports configuration and select the port assigned

to your scanner, port's symbol /dev/mfp0 corresponds to LP:0 designation displayed in the

scanners' options, /dev/mfp1 relates to LP:1, and so on. USB ports start at /dev/mfp4, so scanner

on USB:0 relates to /dev/mfp4 respectively and so forth sequentially. In the Selected port pane,

you can see if the port is occupied by another application. If this is the case, you should either wait

for completion of the current job or press the Release port button, if you are sure that the present

port application is not functioning properly.

The

Ensure a document is loaded into the machine, ensure your machine is connected to the computer.

machine

If there is an I/O error while scanning.

does not

scan.

Refer to Linux User's Guide that came with your computer for further information on Linux error messages.