Comment 6 for bug 299918

From where did you get the PPDs? From OpenPrinting? From Ricoh? Did they get auto-downloaded by system-config-printer/Jockey? Or did you use the openprinting-ppds-extra package of Ubuntu.

Please try the two different principal sources:

1. PPDs from Ubuntu's openprinting-ppds-extra package
2. PPDs from Ricoh, OpenPrinting, or auto download (these are all the same).

For which classes of PPDs does the problem occur for you.

Independent whether the problem occurs or not, please attach the /var/log/cups/error_log (in debug mode, do "cupsctl LogLevel=debug" before sending the test job).

If the problem occurs, replacs pdftops and check whether the problem goes away.

Very important: Do the tests on Ubuntu Intrepid, as it implements the full PDF printing workflow (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PDF_as_Standard_Print_Job_Format).