[Printing-user-general] Kyocera FS-1030D Can print test and pdf, but no Postscript

Hello.

I also posted this in Kyocera printing, but since it might be a problem
unrelated to Kyocera printers, I post it here again.

This is probably a newbie-question, but help is greatly appreciated.

On a Debian Sarge Installation (dual Boot with XP), CUPS and lpr(1) are
availible. The demons are listed as this by ps
/usr/sbin/cupsd -F
/usr/sbin/lpd -s

Using kprinter on KDE, I configured CUPS (v 1.1.23-10)and made the
Kyocera FS-1030D Ecosys printer known.
This is the only printer on a desktop PC and connected to
/dev/usb/lp0
It is recognized nicely by hotplug during boot or when switching on the printer
later.
I was able to print the testpage using kprinter.
I am also able to print .pdf, either using kprinter or
> lpr foo.pdf
However, when trying to print something like foo.ps using kprinter or lpr,
this happend:
CUPS seemed to work fine, send something to the printer and showed the job in
the job done section of http://localhost:631/admin
The printer lighted its Online-LED, (woke up from sleep mode if necessary) and
lighted its Data-LED. So he was indeed reciving data. Then it made some noise
as if it were to print now, but then went bach to do nothing.

I could get around this problem.
Later I did
> apt-get install apsfilter
which installed
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  a2ps apsfilter emacsen-common

Now
> lpr foo.pdf
produces garbage, that is random charackters get spread over a large number of
print pages (a few line per page)
I have to mention that this garbage is only produced by >lpr foo.pdf
(did well before i did >apt-get install apsfilter)
Using kprinter to print the same foo.pdf still works.
Also it is possible to print from kedit (ascii-files).


I will gladly provide any further information you might need for diagnostic,
(maybe directions how to obtain this information needed)

Neither cupsys-client - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs
(SysV)
nor cupsys-bsd - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
are installed
but cupsys 1.1.23-10sarge1 is


       Thank you very much