[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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