[cups.general] HP DesignJet 1050 prints too short
Johannes Meixner
jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Sep 8 05:30:25 PDT 2006
Hello,
On Sep 8 06:22 Franz Pfoertsch wrote (shortened):
> Be carefull it depends on the mime.type an mime.conv
>
> 1. You put it to the spooler by lp <file.pdf>
> 2. The spooler detects pdf (mime.type) and convert it to ps using pdftops
> (defined at mime.conv).
> 3. now cups is doing something inside of pstops
> 3a. is your printer not a ps printer the datastream is converted to
> something usefull for the printer (pstopcl/pstolabel/..).
> 4. The printerdatastream is transferd to the printer via the backend
> (socket/ipp/usb/...
An addendum:
As the filtering depends on various parameters like
- printig application
(some submit the PDF as is, some produce PostScript)
- printer driver
(some use psto<whatever>, some use foomatic-rip+Ghostscript)
- special *.convs rules
the best way to find out what is called for a particular job is
egrep 'Started filter|Started backend' /var/log/cups/error_log
Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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