Cutting the printjob name

Franz Pförtsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.net
Thu Jun 23 08:49:25 PDT 2005


Michael Sweet wrote:

> Helge Blischke wrote:
>> Franz Pförtsch wrote:
>> 
>>>I am using a cups/samba server to serv all printjobs from windows.
>>>
>>>At the list of completed jobs
>>>     (http://<server>:631/jobs?which_jobs=completed)
>>>the printjobsnames are very long.
>>>Here is one examples, the printout is from MS outlook
>>>
>>>        cobp0708-1613           smbprn.00000065
>>>http://bin.brose.net/deu/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/28976/508760/509407/647076/384558/715927/PP050b_Kapitel01_HU-Management.pdf?nodeid=715933&vernum=1.pdf
>>>
>>>Is it possible to cut the name?
>>>
>>>Must it be done in cups or in samba?
>>>
>>>I am using cups 1.1.20 samba 3.0.9 both are SLES 9.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Franz
>> 
>> 
>> AFAIK, the print job name stems from the %%Title: comment in the PS file
>> (or the file name, if the title comment is missing, but I'm not quite
>> sure).
> 
> No, it actually comes across in the print request from the Windows
> client, which in turn comes from the application...
> 
Do I have any chance to change this behavior?
Do the samba-guys knows about it?

My printer a canon ir3100 stops printing!

regards
Franz




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