[OPLINTECH] Innovative Millenium, printing and LINUX

[Craig Heaton]

Hello.  I'm configuring a couple of test workstations, one using Ubuntu 
10.04 and the other OpenSuse 11.3, both with the Gnome desktop.  Everything 
works fine except when trying to print from Millenium.  The print job is 
submitted to the printer, there's a bit of a delay, then an error message 
indicating the print job failed.  After doing a bit of research, it seems 
there's a bug (that was never properly resolved) when printing to non 
postscript printers under Java 1.6 (the version used by Millenium).  It 
seems the fix to this problem is to upgrade to Java 7 or to downgrade to 
Java 5.  Neither is an option, of course, under Millenium as the install of 
Millenium includes JRE 1.6 and runs independently of any other Java version 
installed on the system.

So...have any other library systems encounted this problem and if so what 
was your resolution?  Switching printers isn't an option at this point as we 
have Epson TM88 receipt printers already in place at the circulation desks 
(that are fairly new).  Likewise the reference printers (HP2200's and 
HP4050's, though using the Postscript driver in lieu of the PCL driver with 
these likewise fails).

Craig Heaton
System Administrator, Clermont County Public Library
(513) 735-7151
heatoncr at oplin.org