[cups.general] win98 to cups-raw has different output...

[Andre Robitaille]

I've been working half the night trying to get a CUPS server to  
exactly mirror the output of a Win98 print server.  Right now the  
setup is:

Windows client with HP Laserjet 4050 PCL driver ->
samba ->
cups with raw driver ->
parallel HP Laserjet 4050

For normal Windows applications, everything seems fine, but the  
problem is that we have a legacy DOS app called Tradeworks.  Most of  
what Tradeworks prints is simple ASCII.  I was able to catch  
something in the spool and see that uses the occasional HPPCL code  
(one particular one used '2S' on every page to set the font pitch to  
16.66).

With some things, like an invoice, Tradeworks prints a line border  
with unusual text header, and then puts ASCII in the middle of it.   
With CUPS, when I try to print something after an invoice, the  
invoice graphics are still on the new page when they shouldn't be.   
This did not happen in Windows.

If someone knows the full answer, that's great, but for now I'm just  
trying to find out if there's an easy way to dump print jobs to a  
file (or many files) so I can see exactly what Tradeworks is or is  
not doing.  I figure the end solution will be to set some sort of  
HPPCL reset to the printer before any job.


Thanks,
Andre