From debian-user Tue Dec 14 21:20:16 2021 From: Rainer Dorsch Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:20:16 +0000 To: debian-user Subject: Re: Printjob produces FW error on HP CP1525nw Message-Id: <2610725.pTEiMNdDgI () h370> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=163951679726879 Am Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2021, 14:33:50 CET schrieb Curt: > https://support.hp.com/sk-en/document/c02184434 > > Oops, you're right, there're two errors numbered 79, a service error as > well as a plain old "error" error with no service. Why anyone would go > to the trouble of numbering errors only to give two discrete errors the > selfsame number might be a subject of reflection. Maybe they ran out of > numbers. Is that possible in a human lifetime? Of course, the errors > where the corresponding numbers have a decimal point followed by maybe > not exactly an arbitrary number of Xs (50.X, 54.XX) are equally > confounding. Maybe the Xs are placeholders for decimal parts like > "50.6" or "54.15," indicating errors too arcane for the hoi polloi and > truly understood uniquely by the top-level techs. > > Anyway, all this merely serves to confirm my feeling that I don't really > understand anything (or at least to understand any number of even > trivial things requires a study and attention I'm unwilling to provide). Let's see how well my workaround works. It's good that it is documented here, I am sure I am not the only one running into this problem. I assume in the best case it is a ghostscript bug, which produces invalid postscript, which just affects (the version in) Debian. Thanks for looking into this obscure issue Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/