[cups.development] CUPS 1.2 snapshot

[Jerome Alet]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 08:24:21AM -0400, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Jerome Alet wrote:
> > 
> > Is a similar functionnality planned for other backends as well ?
> > (I understand that the IPP backend uses the IPP protocol for this,
> > and this is not doable with IPP for other backends)
> 
> There is no general solution for other backends. See the hpnpf backend
> (links on the CUPS
> wqeb site) for an example how it may work with printers that support
> PJL, but recently
> I got a printer that pretends to support that but closes the connection
> just when the
> last byte of the job has been received by the PS interpreter.

I know that LPRng's ifhp can do this sort of things using PJL
and/or PostScript at least for AppSocket.

ifhp's sources contain valuable informations about weird behavior
for some printers and AppSocket, maybe this could explain the problem
you encountered.

bye

Jerome Alet