[cups.general] Special driver features missing

[Thomas Wolf]

Hello,

First of all, thx for your answer. You're right, as you can see in the 
image attached i meant the N-Up-features offered by the HP LJ 1300 PS 
(and PLC6) driver.
The clients' os is win2k SP 4 and they don't have access to the server 
(they're only allowed to connect to the printer and to print) so i don't 
think that we can use the feature provided by CUPS filtering system. 
Therefore i guess the only way to give our users the possibility to 
print several pages on one sheet is to use the built-in feature of the 
ps driver. But as the image will tell you the print settings box hides 
these features since we use CUPS.

Any ideas?

Thx
Thomas Wolf

Johannes Meixner wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Aug 8 10:51 Thomas Wolf wrote (shortened):
>  
>
>>since we are running CUPS 1.1.20-0 under SLES 8, SP4 we don't have access to
>>some special driver features like printing serveral pages on one page etc. Is
>>there anything we could do to get access to these special features again?  (HP
>>LJ 1320)
>>    
>>
>
>As you use a Suse business product you should have a Suse support
>contract. If yes, you should use the matching Suse support contact.
>
>I guess you mean the N-Up (number-up) features in the PPD file
>of some HP PostScript printers?
>If yes, use a suitable HP PPD file (you can use YaST to change
>the PPD file: Use the [Change] and [Edit] buttons in YaST).
>
>Regardless of the PPD file, the CUPS filtering system provides the
>number-up feature in any case, see the "CUPS Software Users Manual".
>
>Note that it may lead to confusion that this way two kind of
>number-up features can be used simultaneously:
>First the CUPS filtering number-up feature and then
>the N-Up feature which is built-in in the HP PostScript printer.
>If both are set to print for example two pages on one sheet,
>the result are four pages on one sheet but with a bit different layout
>because both number-up features produce a bit different layouts.
>I.e. use only one kind of number-up feature at a time.
>
>
>Kind Regards
>Johannes Meixner
>  
>

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