Printing compressed data

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Dec 27 08:58:15 PST 2007


Dmitry Vailenko wrote:
>> Dmitry Vailenko wrote:
>>>        I need to print compressed data to remote printer (hp4250n, hp2300n, …) from HP-UX 11.11 server with Cups 1.3.4. I tried to do it in two ways:
>>>
>>>        1.Directly to network printer
>>> /opt/cups/sbin/lpadmin -p ILP01 -E –v ipp://192.168.78.49:631/ipp?compression=gzip
>>>
>>>        2.Via remote Windows 2003 print server
>>> /opt/cups/sbin/lpadmin -p ILP09 -E -v http://192.168.78.55/printers/CLP45/.printer?compression=gzip
>>>
>>>
>>>        Without “compression=gzip” all is ok.
>> Windows and most network printers do not support document compression.
>>
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>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> 
> Do you know any network printers or print servers (software or hardware) that support document compression?

No.

> May be  you can advise something else? I am very interested in  comperessed printing.

If you are printing over a WAN link, you can setup a CUPS server on
the other end and get compressed printing that way.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com




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