rastertopcl creating very large (> 2 GB) files

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Jul 26 12:40:54 PDT 2004


Anonymous wrote:
> ...
>> Nope, nothing has changed in the '5000 driver.  What type of 
>> connection are you using to the printer ("lpstat -v" will show)?
> 
> We're connecting via lpd right now.  This printer has a printjet lpd
> server directly connected to it, so we're just interfacing with that.
> Perhaps there is a better way?

Well, the LPD protocol requires a file size, and both CUPS 1.1.x and
your print server (most likely) do not support sizes >2GB.  If you
use the "socket" scheme instead then you will avoid any mention of
the print data size on either end...

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