Cannot print to OCE 9400 plotter...
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Dec 15 10:15:12 PST 2005
sleepy wrote:
>
> > Thats are good news!
>
> Thanks!
>
> > where are your printjobs come from?
>
> Our printjobs are sent from various Solaris 9 and 10 workstations throughout the company. Most are sent via the command line using the standard lp commands (we symbolically linked them to the lp commands within /opt/sfw/cups/... ) so the users wouldn't notice any changes in how they print/plot.
>
> > which kind of PS do the build?
>
> Sorry, I'm not really sure what you mean...
>
> > without the ppd you are not able to select any special function from a
> > cups-client.
>
> This is true, but with the PPD file, we weren't able to plot drawings at all. :-\
>
> > Franz
>
> sleepy
>
> > >>
> > > We were able to fix the problem, so I thought I'd share our findings in
> > > case anyone else runs into this. :)
> > >
> > > The solution was to NOT use the PPD file from oce.com, and to instead send
> > > the raw data to the plotter. We removed the plotter from the CUPS
> > > listing, and added it again with the following values:
> > >
> > > Device: LPD/LPR Host or Printer
> > > Device URI: lpd://NAME_OF_YOUR_PLOTTER/PASSTHRU
> > > Make: (Select Raw from top of list)
> > > Model: (The only choice should be 'Raw Queue')
> > >
> > > And at that point, the plotter should accept drawing files!
> > >
> > > One word of notice; the plotter does not process test pages sent from the
> > > CUPS web interface.
> > >
> > >
> > > sleepy
> >
Perhaps you post (an UTRL to) both the PPD file and a sample plot file so somebody (maybe me)
can look into.
Helge
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Helge Blischke
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