Alloo,

I'm having a problem. I have an okipage okidata 14ex USB laserprinter 
and it works just fine. I am running gentoo linux with cups 1.1.20.

Now, I want to print this .pdf file of 7.2MB. It only counts 14 pages, 
but with a lot of graphics, colors, layers, etc... My printer only 
delivers the following on a paper:

PCL XL error
     Subsystem:    GRAPHIC
     Error:        InsufficientMemory
     Operator:    Rectangle
     Position:    49068

Nothing more. Seemingly, the printer has insufficient memory (it has 
4MB) and I am looking for ways to get this solved.

When I choose to only print pages 1 to 1 in xpdf or acroread, the same 
error occurs. It seems that still the whole document gets spooled.

Is there a way to reduce the resolution of the .pdf-files? Is there a 
way to split it up? Maybe I can configure cups to do this for me?

greetings and thanks,
BBBart

Bart Van Loon <bbbart@kotnet.org> wrote:

>I have an okipage okidata 14ex USB laserprinter 
>and it works just fine. I am running gentoo linux with cups 1.1.20.
>Now, I want to print this .pdf file of 7.2MB. It only counts 14 pages, 
>but with a lot of graphics, colors, layers, etc... My printer only 
>delivers the following on a paper:
>
>PCL XL error
>     Subsystem:    GRAPHIC
>     Error:        InsufficientMemory
>     Operator:    Rectangle
>     Position:    49068
>
>Nothing more. Seemingly, the printer has insufficient memory (it has 
>4MB) and I am looking for ways to get this solved.
>
>When I choose to only print pages 1 to 1 in xpdf or acroread, the same 
>error occurs. It seems that still the whole document gets spooled.

No, I don't think it shows that.  CUPS (probably) is converting the
file to PCL a page at a time. The printer doesn't have to hold any
pages other than the current one it is printing. So there is not
enough memory to print a single page.

This has no connection to the original PDF size - it could be 10K.  It
has to do with the amount of information on a page.

4 MB is borderline for 600 dpi printing. See if you can lower the
resolution to 300 dpi. Perhaps in CUPS, perhaps in the printer itself.
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