[cups-devel] print appears to be successful, but no output

[Dean Guenther]

Thanks for your help Helge. I created a new printer on the linux box by
going to

http://192.168.0.2:631/admin

I then added a printer on the windows 7 box and I specified a color
laserjet (postscript). It works. Thanks again for your help -- Dean



> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 22:34:31 +0100
> From: Helge Blischke <HelgeBlischke at web.de>
> To: "The CUPS developer list." <cups-devel at cups.org>
> Subject: Re: [cups-devel] print appears to be successful, but no
> 	output
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> Dean,
>
> I installed an HP PSC 1200 printer on a Ubuntu based Linux system and
> found
> that the resulting data format is quite different from that one
> originating from
> your Windows box.
> After further research, I found out that
> ?	your Win originated print file contains data in PCL3GUI format
> (which is
> 	in essence a PCL3 encapsulation of highly compressed image data;
> ?	the Linux based print file contains compressed image data without
> 	any PCLx encapsulation, and looking into the implementation details
> 	told me this implementation used a HP proprietary printer language
> 	named LIDIL ( Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language), which has
> 	been developed in about 2000.
>
> I guess that your WIndows system is an XP system (originating before
> about 2000)
> and thus supporting a technically different printer.
>
> If you only need to print to your Linux printer from a Windows box,
> I'd suggest to
> redefine the printer on Windows as a PostScript color printer (say, as
> a Color Laserjet).
> Then the print files originating from the Windows box will be run
> through the
> CUPS filter chain on your Linux box and (hopefully) print in
> reasonable quality
> on your real PSC 1200 printer.
>
> Helge
>

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