[cups.general] Problems with printer

[Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch]

Hi,

thanks for the answer. Well I've installed the
orignal PCL driver for this model from RICOH on the samba
print server.
Before I tried this I've used the ppd from the postscript
driver from ricoh and used "cupsaddsmb"

I'll test the filter backend as ...

Thanks and bye, Peer
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> On Oct 25 07:38 Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch wrote (shortened):
> 
>>I've added a new Ricoh multi function printer (AF1515PS).
>>The printer supports lpd,ipp and socket:9100 printing.
>>All three methods are working for cups clients.
>>All methods do not work for the windows people using samba
>>who are trying to print !
>>The print job is send to the printer, but the printer
>>resets the print job and nothing is printed.
> 
> 
> This shows that the plain data transfer to the printer seems to
> work but the printer cannot process (i.e. print) the data.
> Therefore the reason is the "driver" (i.e. the software which
> produces the printer specific data).
> 
> 
> 
>>SuSE 9.1, cups 1.1.20, samba 3.0.20
>>
>>[global]
>>...
>>        printcap name = cups
>>        cups options = raw
>>
>>#
>>I have also used the printer without a ppd file
>>as a raw printer, but also this could not solve the problem.
> 
> 
> The "cups options = raw" enforces Samba to do raw printing
> so that it is the same result as using a "raw printer".
> 
> 
> 
>>I've installed the PCL driver for the windows people,
> 
> 
> It seems that this driver doesn't produce the right
> printer specific data.
> For example the printer may be switched to a PostScript-only
> mode or a wrong PCL emulation mode?
> Try to use the original manufacturer driver for Windows.
> 
> 
> 
>>My first guess was, that the pcl job is going through a ps
>>filter and somehow is getting corruppted.
> 
> 
> Not when you use raw printing (i.e. for Samba "cups options = raw"
> or "lp -o raw ..." when printing from command line)
> and not when you use a raw queue (i.e. a "raw printer").
> 
> Use
> grep 'Started ' /var/log/cups/error_log
> to see which filters and which backend is started for a job.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner


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