[cups.general] Compression of IPP or LPD data stream

[Steve Bergman]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:52 -0500, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Steve Bergman wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to get cups to compress the IPP or LPD data stream going
> > to the printer?  I have Fedora Core thin clients at remote locations via
> > DSL and my users send relatively large pcl6 and postscript streams from
> > the remote server to their printers.
> > 
> > Any info greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Steve Bergman
> 
> For PostScript, I'd know how to implement compression, but I've no
> idea for PCL as far as a spooler (CUPS) and only the printers 
> themselves are involved. I don't know about the capabilities of
> the thin clients - are they able to do decompression? 
> 
> Helge
> 

Thanks for the reply.

I would be interested in how you would do it with postscript.

The thin clients are Fedora Core 1 boxes running X and vnc out of
inittab.

Thanks,
Steve