printing from iMac fails

[Christoph Litauer]

Dear cups-admins,

one of our users has a brandnew iMAC. If he starts a print job to our
cups server, nothing is printed.

I analysed the problem and found, that the final postscript code
contains variable definitions like:

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%%BeginSetup
/CUPS_ENV_OPT
<<	% Environment variables and command line options
  /CHARSET (utf-8)
  /CONTENT_TYPE (application/pdf)
  /DEVICE_URI (file:/var/tmp/test.out)
  /LANG (de)
  /PRINTER (test)
  /SOFTWARE (CUPS/1.1)
  /USER (root)
  /CURRENT_DATE (Friday, 25. November 2005 09:41)
  /NOWDATE (2005-11-25 329)
  /NOWTIME (09:41:27)
  /HPwmSwitch (Off)
  /HPwmBrightness (Medium)
  /HPwmTextAngle (Deg45)
 ....
/com.apple.print.subTicket.page_format_ticket..d.com.apple.print.ticket.version
(10.4.0)
/com.apple.print.subTicket.page_format_ticket..d.com.apple.print.subTicket.paper_info_ticket..d.com.apple.print.ticket.version
(10.4.0)
/com.apple.print.subTicket.page_format_ticket..d.com.apple.print.subTicket.paper_info_ticket..d.com.apple.print.PageFormat.PMAdjustedPaperRect..a.0..n.
(-18.008336946550838)
/com.apple.print.subTicket.page_format_ticket..d.com.apple.print.subTicket.paper_info_ticket..d.com.apple.print.PageFormat.PMAdjustedPaperRect..a.1..n.
(-18.008336946550838)
/com.apple.print.subTicket.page_format_ticket..d.com.apple.print.subTicket.paper_info_ticket..d.com.apple.print.PageFormat.PMAdjustedPaperRect..a.2..n.
(824.38164688654945)
/com.apple.print.subTicket.page_format_ticket..d.com.apple.print.subTicket.paper_info_ticket..d.com.apple.print.PageFormat.PMAdjustedPaperRect..a.3..n.
(577.26724545332411)
......
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As you can see, the environment definitions when sending the job to the
cups server contains very long variable names. The printer (HP Laserjet
4050) refuses to print that code complaining about a "limitcheck".

As a solution I inserted a filter, that deletes lines starting with
/com.apple.print, but this is an ugly workaround. Any other/better
solutions available? Is it possible to prevent the generation of
CUPS_ENV_OPT?

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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Christoph Litauer                  litauer at uni-koblenz.de
Uni Koblenz, Computing Center,     http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer
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