Problems printing from XP's "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" application using CUPS driver

[Michael Sweet]

Sean E. Millichamp wrote:
> I am using the CUPS Windows Driver (5.0rc3) on Windows to print via 
> Samba to CUPS on a Linux server.
> 
> When printing JPEG images from Mozilla Firebird, MS Paint, or The GIMP 
> for Windows I get successful outputs.  However, when I try to print any 
> JPEG from the default Windows XP image viewer program "Windows Picture 
> and Fax Viewer" it seems to generate a job, send it to the server, which 
> sends it to the printer, which sits there and chugs on it for a while, 
> and then it produces: a completely blank sheet of paper.
> 
> This seems to happen from every Windows XP box using the CUPS 5.0rc3 
> Windows printer driver and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and also to at 
> least two different printer types (with two different PPDs).  Any ideas 
> on why this program isn't generating printable output and what I might 
> be able to do to fix it?
> 
> BTW: When trying to print to a locally attached printer using a native 
> printer driver it works just fine.  So it seems to be something specific 
> to the CUPS Windows driver and that program.

More than likely it is an incompatibility between the CUPS driver
and the application; the latest CUPS 1.1.21 release candidate
supports the newer Win2k/XP PostScript drivers which are much more
functional (MS apparently licensed Adobe's PS driver for Win2k and
beyond...)

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