recently, "Failed to print document, Too many failed attempts"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 28 May 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   just recently, i'm having regular trouble printing PDF files thru
> "evince", with evince complaining as above.  i used to be able to
> throw a 200-page PDF file at the printer but now, i have to do it in 8
> and 16 page chunks at a time.  and sometimes, even *that* doesn't
> work.
>
>   is anyone else seeing this?

  just to add a bit more detail, i have a brother double-sided
printer, and i wanted to print a 182-page PDF file, double-sided and 4
images per page.

  my first attempt to print the whole thing at once failed as above.
i reduced the page sets until i was printing only 8 pages at a time
(which would fit on a single sheet of paper).  that strikes me as
unnecessarily inconvenient, and i'm pretty sure i used to be able to
print sizable documents in one fell swoop.

  could it be the printer/printer driver combo?

rday
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