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

[Sean Millichamp]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:18:19 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:

> Sean E. Millichamp wrote:

>> 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.

> 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...)

Hmm... alright, for folks like me that only follow CUPS development
whenever I have problems I need a clarification ;)

Do you mean that in the CUPS 1.1.21 distribution there is an updated
Windows driver that I should be using instead of the "CUPS Driver for
Windows" available at the webpage?  I poked through the cups-1.1.21rc2
source and didn't see anything that looked like the Windows driver but I
admit I really don't know what I'd be looking for.

OR, do you mean that I should be using some driver provided with Windows
2K/XP instead of the "CUPS Driver for Windows" but that the
Postscript driver included with Windows 2K/XP generates output that CUPS
prior to 1.1.21 won't accept/process properly?  If I wanted to try this
new Windows Postscript driver how would I find it listed in Windows (or,
where would I find it to download)?

Really, I'm just trying to setup my Windows/Linux printing infrastructure
"The Right Way" and I thought that using the CUPS Driver for Windows was
the preferred way to best integrate and utilize the power of CUPS
from Windows based on everything I have read regarding using CUPS with
Samba. If there is a new version of "The Right Way" I'd be very interested
in knowing about it :)

Thanks!

Sean

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 Sean E. Millichamp, Network & Systems Engineer
 Enertron LLC
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