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Why won't .pdf files containing transparent elements print correctly?

I have recently encountered a problem printing .pdf files containing transparent elements. I first noticed it when printing a document created with LaTeX that included embedded .png images with alpha ...
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Cannot change Okular's default page size under Ubuntu 18.04

After installing Ubuntu 18.04, Okular always defaults to "A4" as the page size, even if I have set the page size to "letter" everywhere. For example, even if in Okular's printer dialog I click "...
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Printer holds jobs (Samsung M2070W + Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

My Samsung printer sometimes takes up to 45 minutes to print a page. When pluged in and out, it prints immediately for a while. After leaving it to to go power-saving mode, it sometimes can but mostly ...
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Problem installing thermal printer

I have a usb HOIN HOP-H58 thermal printer that I have not succeeded in installing. I have Ubuntu 18.04 and a POS system that I wish to use the printer with. The system recognises the printer as CUPS-...
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Printer Idle status in Ubuntu 64bit with Canon LBP6000

Another Canon printer problem with Ubuntu. I have installed my Canon LBP6000 in Ubuntu using several tutorials of different web sites. Here is the property page of my printer. When I print any ...
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How to install Canon Pixma E400 on Ubuntu 14.10?

Fair warning: I am a complete noob to Linux and Ubuntu. I have been trying to install the Canon Pixma E400 printer but have not succeeded so far. I tried: locating the driver through the built-in ...
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Chromium print dialog shows boxes instead of fonts

When I attempt to save an email as a pdf in Chromium, using the print dialog, I get a screen full of boxes instead of font characters when the system "save as" dialog appears. The dialog ...
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Is it possible to get a preview in the default print-dialog-window ? or at least a "preview" button?

The default print-dialog window of ubuntu 20.04 does not offer preview. Is there any way to change that ? At least I would like a preview button, but i would rather like it to appear by default. ...
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unable to print a document from WSL ubuntu

I have installed WSL and WSL2 and I am trying to print a document from Ubuntu WSL. But unfortunately, I can't install the driver for the printer. I'm getting these errors: [][] In WSL, I have ...
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20:04 upgrade has broken Printing/Scanning

I'm having issues with my Deskjet 2634 since updating to 20:04. Nothing prints or Scans Cable connected. If I delete all printers and re-insert USB cable it's immediately found but if I ctrl + P on a ...
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Printer installation Issue - hplip-3.20.5 Ubuntu 20.04 Failed to read PPD file

I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 (fresh install) and installed hplip version 3.20.5 to connect my printer. Upon running hp-setup (gui) finds my printer and to click next but I run into an error below:...
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Ubuntu 18.04 no Cups admin login page

Ubuntu 18.04 (both 32 bit and 64 bit) has no Cups login page. The page that comes up from http://localhost:631/admin has no login site. This is first time it has occurred
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Ubuntu couldn't detect my scanner

Ubuntu 16.04, GNOME. Don't know why, but Simple Scan stoped working - firstly, the error "no devices was found", after reinstalling last version of hplip and configuring this problem was solved. But ...
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Installing an SNMP proxy (for a printer)

I am a newbie to SNMP and its configuration, so my apologies for asking a question that might have a very simple answer. However, I have been searching on the Internet for some time now, and I just ...
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Can one change the output path of cups pdf printer dynamically

One can call lpr to use cups-pdf printer to print a file to pdf, for instance foo.txt lpr -P PDF foo.txt When calling, the printer creates a directory called PDF in the $HOME directory and creates a ...
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Driver installation issue: Xerox Phaser 6600

The only drivers I was able to find on the Foomatic database are the ones of a different printer (6360DX). I then extracted the PPD drivers from a win 7 driver but the printer config program is not ...
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Network printer (Canon) on Ubuntu via remote USB port

I've been playing with cups a bit but I got completely lost. What I want to do is to be able to print from any machine (Window, Mac, or other) on my network via printer that is attached to my server. ...
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Printing from a different tray in cups

I'm trying to print from tray 2 but I can only print from tray 1 and there is no way to enable more paper sources in cups is there a way to enable this option? My printer is a Epson xp950.
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Automatically install printers shared on Windows Domain

All of the resources I can find provide detailed instructions for sharing Linux printers with Windows over SAMBA. I would like to do the opposite. I currently have CUPS configured so that it can add ...
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Print Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 automatically adds all network printers to print view

After upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 the print manager automatically added all network printers to my print view. Under 12.04 only those network printers where shown which I actually added manually. ...
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HPLIP will not open

I have just installed HPLIP using the Ubuntu Software Centre in to 12.04LTS. The icon has appeared in Unity, but nothing happens when I click on it. I have run hp-check -t in terminal and get the ...
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PDF viewer prints blank pages

I have a computer running Ubuntu 13.04 with a Konica Minolta Bizhub C20 printer that's connected over Ethernet. When I print a PDF using the built-in PDF viewer in Ubuntu, the page will be blank, ...
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Parallel port not working with an HP Laserjet 6P

I'm working on setting up an old printer (HP LaserJet 6P) on some old hardware (Gateway E4300) running Precise (12.04 LTS). When I try to select the parallel port in hp-setup -i, it gives me the ...
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How to set up SAMBA / CUPS print server?

I am using 13.04 on an old laptop hooked up to a printer that I would like to access from my Windows 8 PC. I have been working on this for hours and I cannot seem to get the right configuration of ...
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My Printers only print out blank pages

I've just installed 12.10 - very good - all appears well, network connectivity is good - I can connect to devices on my network without issue. I have two printers - a local HP officejet 4500 and a ...
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Printing does not work on a Sharp MX 2310U

Help please with a little printer probem. I am using a Sharp-MX-2310U printer on the network with Ubuntu 12.10. Followed all the normal setup and looking at cups localhost:631/printers/ I see the ...
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Printing Page Numbers in Okular

I'm using Okular to print some PDF files. How can I add page number to each page? Edit: Screen shots that Lucio requested: (I have no print menu! I have File > Print >> Options)
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Configure Brother HL-1212W wireless printer via Ubuntu

I've been able to configure my Brother HL-1212W to print via USB cable without much problem. The printer is not connected to the wireless network, but it is capable of it. I'd like to do the full ...
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Network Printer "Print Data Error" receives data but does not print Ricoh/Lanier LD520C

I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure this out. I just tossed WIN8.1 because I could not make any hardware work, but it had similar symptoms. First I tried with Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit Then I ...
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Installation of hplip 23.23.3 in ubuntu 23.04

I did this: wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/hpl...3.run/download -O hplip-3.23.3.run Then I did this: sudochmod +x hplip-3.23.3.run Then sudo ./hplip-3.23.3.run Then I got this message: ...
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Ubuntu Chrome "The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly"

This is on Ubuntu 22.04. Printing had worked fine until now. Suddenly this come up in the Google Chrome Browser selection of any of my printers (except PDF). Printing continues to work fine on firefox,...
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Ubuntu 21.10 Cannot Print From WINE Application

Since one of the recent Ubuntu updates, WINE applications will no longer print. There are no on-screen errors but nothing happens either when I send a document to the printer. I can print a test page ...
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Installing an HP Deskjet 3630 printer

I am trying to install a HP Deskjet 3630 printer, on Ubuntu 20.04 (64-bit, Gnome version 3.36.8). I downloaded and installed HPLIP version 3.20.3. The printer is connected by a USB cable (I cannot ...
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Samsung printer m2070 no working on ubuntu

I have installed the drivers for printer samsung m2070, it is connected via usb, it is added to the list, but it does not work, how to find a solution, I am a new user of ubuntu Tanks
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printer rediscovered, Ubuntu 20.04

My network printer (HP Envy 5644) is constantly (2-3 times a day) being added to my computer (Acer Aspire 5) giving me a notification, even if it's already installed. Earlier I have edited /etc/cups/...
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Brother PT-P950NW Print Quality

I have developed a piece of software for asset management that prints it's own barcode labels, this software works perfectly on on macOS with CUPS but I want to use an Intel NUC with Ubuntu for ...
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Duplicate color printer as black and white printer

Using KDE (Kubuntu) it was very easy to get my new network printer running (it just appeared). But as that printer is a color printer and I want to print only black and white most of the time (to ...
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Rearange pages from an A6 pdf to an A4 pdf

I have a pdf document with 22 pages. Each page is in A6 format so that four of these pages fit on one A4 page. The 22 pages are ordered so that the odd pages (1,3,5,...) are the front sites of the A6 ...
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Printer will not print .pdf, .png and .ps files on Ubuntu 18

I was able to print any type of document initially. Now and for several weeks I have not been able to print graphics files, .pdf files or screen shot files for my desktop or from the internet. ****...
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ubuntu 18.04 - cannot stop browing LAN printers

Ubuntu is keeping browsing the LAN and installing printers automatically. How to stop that? 1 - I have tried : sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed 2 - I have ...
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Which PDF viewer from Ubuntu repository allows to print current view?

I know that Adobe Acrobat Reader has useful feature for printing - it allows printing current view. So if user opens some document and then selects some area, the viewer allows to print this area: ...
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Xerox Workcentre 3025 scanner is not working (Ubuntu 18.04)

I read this question. Also I have Xerox Workcentre 3025 multifunction printer and Ubuntu 18.04. I do the same steps to install this device. Printer works well, but scanner not. When device is in ...
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How to install and configure an HP printer on Ubuntu?

I have an HP printer model Deskjet 3516. I remember having deleted some folder from the printer settings by mistake, but I can not remember which folder it was. I tried adding a printer by system ...
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How to disable job name in print notifications for other logged in users?

We have a terminal server where users log in via Thinlinc. They are provided with a mate session. When a user prints a document, a notification of the successful print job pops up for every user. The ...
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Move slow `udev-configure-printer` from systemd boot to after login prompt

I've been tweaking my boot speed today. The first step was to remove: 6.194s NetworkManager-wait-online.service To remove it I used: systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service And ...
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Printer Samsung ML-2165W: Installed but it won't print (using USB cable)

I appreciate any suggestions you can give me. I'm replacing a Windows XP laptop from 2008 with a new Ubuntu machine. I'm having trouble printing from a Samsung ML-2165W. (The printer does work ...
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Cannot connect cups client with server

I have a print server running Ubuntu Server 16.04 with a HPLaserJet9050N network printer installed (with a ppd) And it prints ok. In another machine I have an Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 and I'm trying to ...
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How to add a printer connected to windows machine in ubuntu

I am using ubuntu 16.04. I need to connect to windows printer. The printer is connected to windows 7 machine with IP address of 192.168.2.5 and my IP address is 192.168.1.98. How can I connect to that ...
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guest-session and printer pause

This may be a bug/feature or my misconfiguration... Logged in Ubuntu as a guest user (customized https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizeGuestSession) When user clicks or somehow makes print(...
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ricoh sp 212sfnw drivers install

I'm using ubuntu 16.04. I bought a new ricoh sp 212sfnw it is a printer ,scanner, fax ,network and wireless printer. I can't find or install drivers for printer or scanner or network . I tried this ...
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