[cups.general] Practicalites of non-DSC-conformant PostScript

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Nov 21 13:25 Michael Sweet wrote (shortened):
> Some folks setup Samba to print using the "raw" or
> "document-format=application/vnd.cups-raw" options; this bypasses
> the usual filtering without resorting to a separate queue.  The down
> side is that you lose page accounting...

How can page accounting (e.g. via pstops) work in general
when the Windows clients run a printer driver and send
whatever random printer specific data?

According to mime.types it seems that in particular PCL data
is assigned to application/vnd.cups-raw which would not pass
any filter so that there is no page accounting for PCL data.

As far as I know page accounting requires that the  Windows clients
produce clean printer-independent full DSC conformant PostScript
(in particular with the DSC page comments and without any "copies"
settings via a job control language).


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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