[cups.general] Re: HP Laserjet 4250 gets confused by pjl from

[Helge Blischke]

If you use the original Winxx PostScript driver(s) (I mean the software
pieces, i.e. the
DLLs, not the PPDs), you'll find that that software produces "print
reeady" jobs which 
are NOT supposed to be handled by an additional spooler, and these jobs
usually
are NOT really DSC compliant (even if the preferences GUI tells
something different).
Thus, a program like CUPS' pstops filter (which completely relies on the
DSC conformacne)
may easily be disturbed (but garbage like the sample file I've never
seen before).
For jobs like this it seems reaonable to select raw printing.

And, that is why we at our site still use the old (and, as of Michael
Sweet, deprecated)
NT4 kernel mode driver (it runs on W2K and XP and can co-exist with the
new user mode
drivers without problems), as that passes things like banner,
page-label, etc. options
as job ticket comments (instead of PJL statements) that are properly
handled by
the CUPS scheduler even whith raw printing.

Helge

Franz Pförtsch wrote:
> 
> Hello people,
> 
> what is the reason for this behaviour?
> I also have some printers (ppd's) which needs the raw option from samba.
> In my opinion this is only a workaround.
> 
> In my special case the following ppd's are infected.
> HP DesignJet 1050cm
> HP DesignJet 4000ps
> Acrobat Distiller 3011.104
> ...
> 
> I trie to make a diff with and without the raw option, but I am not able to
> understand the difference.
> What is cups doing with the datastream (pstops)
> 
> I there somebody outside to explaine me what's happening?
> 
> regards
> Franz
> 
> Alex Finch wrote:
> 
> >
> >   Well I think I found the solution to this problem, certainly the
> >   postscript
> > errors went away and everything now seems to work. The rule as far as I
> > can tell is, if using the vendor supplied drivers, in smb.conf
> >
> > DO put
> >
> >    cups options = raw
> >
> > DO NOT put
> >
> >   any        print command = ...
> >

-- 
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
http://www.srz.de