[cups.general] postscript printed as text

[David Schlenk]

I know how to do raw printing, but I don't want to as then I wouldn't 
be able to get accurate page counting.

On Dec 10, 2004, at 2:57 AM, angel bosch wrote:

> you can tray this driver:
>
>
> http://www.shinesoft.com/download/sippmon.zip
>
>
> printer must be installed as local one with proper drivers, then go to
> port configuration and you will see a new one called IPP1: AIPP, select
> this and configure ip and printer on transport tab.
> also you must define application/octet-stream on job tab and enable raw
> printing on mime.types & mime.convs uncommenting this line:
> #application/octet-stream
>
>
> this work for me.
>
> tell me something if this dont work for you.
>
> see you
>
>
> El dj 09 de 12 del 2004 a les 16:02 -0600, en/na David Schlenk va
> escriure:
>> I'm using cups-1.1.20 with a HP Color LaserJet 4650. Works fine from
>> Windows 2k/XP and OS X, but from Win9x the HP supplied driver gets
>> typed as text/plain by cups and thus the PS code is sent to the 
>> printer
>> as text. CUPS types it as text, runs it through texttops, pstops, and
>> then a custom page counting filter I wrote called bboxpages.
>>
>> I haven't changed anything in mimes.types/convs other than to enable
>> raw printing for our non-PS printers.  I'm using the PPD from the 
>> 2k/xp
>> driver in CUPS.
>>
>> I had issues with PDF files (they'd get stuck such that one page would
>> keep printing repeatedly until the printer was powered off and the job
>> deleted from the queue) with newer versions of CUPS, so I've stayed at
>> 1.1.20.
>>
>> I'd use the CUPS windows drivers, but they only support 2k/xp, 
>> correct?
>> I haven't had good success with those drivers on those platforms,
>> either, particularly when using advanced printer features (duplex
>> units, additional trays, etc).
>>
>> Using the MS supplied "HP Color Laserjet PS" driver in Windows 98SE 
>> did
>> print correctly, but I don't know how to get at that driver in order 
>> to
>> make it available via samba, and it doesn't support the 4650 
>> correctly,
>> sending jobs at 300dpi rather than 600.
>>
>> I searched the archives and didn't find any solutions provided to the
>> many folks who have asked this question before. I've had this happen 
>> on
>> other printers, notably the HP LaserJet 4100 printer, but after trying
>> various older versions of the HP drivers I found one that worked. I
>> don't have that option for this printer/architecture.
>>
>> Anyone have any luck fixing something similar to this?
>> --
>> David Schlenk
>> Operating Systems Analyst
>> Bethel University
>> Saint Paul, Minnesota
>> david-schlenk at bethel.edu
>>
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