Status of printing, one week later
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Now that the dust has settled a bit, we would like to give a status update after the print server migration. Somewhat contrary to popular belief, the overall situation with printing has improved quite a lot. Most combinations of operating systems, client programs, file formats and printers work very well, with two notable exceptions:
- Mac OS X 10.6.7:
printing some PDFs from non-Adobe programs on some printers fails. We're working on a solution. Either use Adobe Reader/Acrobat or print on any other printer. This problem is introduced with the 10.6.7 update. You'll have to use the Acroread workaround until we find a solution.SOLVED: Apple released an official patch to fix the problems with fonts. Please update your computer. - Macs:
the LPD way of printing (readme) currently does not work. Again, we're working on it. Use CUPS in the meantime.SOLVED
As a reminder, please let us know immediately if apart from the above-mentioned cases you still experience printing issues.