Cannot print to OCE 9400 plotter...

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Dec 15 10:15:12 PST 2005


sleepy wrote:
> 
> > Thats are good news!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > where are your printjobs come from?
> 
> Our printjobs are sent from various Solaris 9 and 10 workstations throughout the company.  Most are sent via the command line using the standard lp commands (we symbolically linked them to the lp commands within /opt/sfw/cups/... ) so the users wouldn't notice any changes in how they print/plot.
> 
> > which kind of PS do the build?
> 
> Sorry, I'm not really sure what you mean...
> 
> > without the ppd you are not able to select any special function from a
> > cups-client.
> 
> This is true, but with the PPD file, we weren't able to plot drawings at all.  :-\
> 
> > Franz
> 
> sleepy
> 
> > >>
> > > We were able to fix the problem, so I thought I'd share our findings in
> > > case anyone else runs into this. :)
> > >
> > > The solution was to NOT use the PPD file from oce.com, and to instead send
> > > the raw data to the plotter.  We removed the plotter from the CUPS
> > > listing, and added it again with the following values:
> > >
> > > Device:  LPD/LPR Host or Printer
> > > Device URI:  lpd://NAME_OF_YOUR_PLOTTER/PASSTHRU
> > > Make:  (Select Raw from top of list)
> > > Model:  (The only choice should be 'Raw Queue')
> > >
> > > And at that point, the plotter should accept drawing files!
> > >
> > > One word of notice; the plotter does not process test pages sent from the
> > > CUPS web interface.
> > >
> > >
> > > sleepy
> >

Perhaps you post (an UTRL to) both the PPD file and a sample plot file so somebody (maybe me)
can look into.

Helge

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