client page size not passed to renderer

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
> WindowsXP clients are not able to print to either our HP CP1700 or our Business Inkjet 1100.
> I am working with cups-1.1.23.0, hpijs-2.1.4, samba-3.0.20b,1 running together on FreeBSD 6.0R. The windows XP clients are using W2K Postscript drivers downloaded over samba.
> The setup works for 5 Printers and doesn't for the 2 mentionned above. All are network printers. An older Samba/Cups server works with all 7.
> A HP CP1700 and a Business Inkjet 1100 cannot yet be used. All printers are OK when used from an *unix client.
> The page size in print jobs from the Windows clients to the above mentionned printers, either A3 or A4, doesn't seem to get passed to the renderer. Within the log files (sample below) can be seen in various places that the most if not all references to page size are filled with 0's.
> [Job 269] pw = 0.0, pl = 0.0
> [Job 269] PageLeft = 0.0, PageRight = 0.0
> [Job 269] PageTop = 0.0, PageBottom = 0.0
> [Job 269] PageWidth = 0.0, PageLength = 0.0
> followed by the call to gs with
> "-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0".
> Printing from an *unix client show these places filled with the proper
> point counts. Printing from the Windows clients to any other printer here also functions as it should.
> Suggestions as to what I should tweak/replace? The differences between the hpijs driver for the cp1700 on the old server and on the new one seemed to be linmited to the default page size and some new functionality that the old one didn't have.

Unfortunately, this is a common problem with Foomatic, and there is
no fix that I am aware of.

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