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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Printjob produces FW error on HP CP1525nw
From:       Rainer Dorsch <ml () bokomoko ! de>
Date:       2021-12-14 21:20:16
Message-ID: 2610725.pTEiMNdDgI () h370
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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

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Rainer Dorsch
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