custom PS driver not working with 1.2.2

[david costa]

Hi Kurt,

Thanks for your reply.
 I'm afraid the person that wrote the custom driver for us is no longer available for questioning.
 Printing works fine with other PPDs, however, the reason we need to use this one is that the printer has nine paper trays and the standard PPDs don't support it. So I can print, but only from one tray.
Luckily, only my boss and I (the sysdamin dept) have upgraded our versions of cups, so everyone else is still able to print just fine. I'd like to upgrade our CUPS server,but can't do it untill I either get this driver working or manage to find a different driver that does the same.

I haven't tried the "-o raw" option yet, but I will tomorrow first thing in the morning. However how will this help me sort out the tray situation?

Any ideas on what changed from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 that may be causing this?

thanks again for your help so far, :)

David

> david costa <dpcosta at dijkman.nl> wrote (Tuesday 01 August 2006 16:55):
>
> > Dear all,
>
> Sorry, my current news reader (a development version) crashes when
> trying to copy'n'paste the PPD, or even when trying to scroll down
> more than 1000 lines (it has 2800 lines).
>
> > After upgrading to cups 1.2.2 on fedora 5, a driver we were using
> > to print to a HP 9050 printer is no longer working. This driver
> > was custom made for us due to the printer having 9 input bins.
>
> What about getting support from the people who custom made the
> driver for you?
>
> > I realize the code below says HP8100, but it worked fine with cups
> > 1.2.1 and the HP9050 printer. When trying to print no errors
> > occur, but the printout simply doesn't come out of the printer.
>
> Can you print when you use another PPD? Try a very generic one.
>
> Can you print the CUPS test page with the -o raw option?
>
>   lp -d <printername> -o raw /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps
>
> > I tried looking at the cups error logs, but no errors were given.
> > Thanks in advance for any help with getting this to work.
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt