Large cups systems?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Seth Galitzer wrote:

>>> That job I'm still
>>> analyzing, but it's a 40MB (wow) pdf file. 
>> How many pages? Embedded pictures with high resolutions?
> 
> For these jobs, files are ranging anywhere from 3 to 20 pages. 

My question was directed at that biggish 40 MByte job specifically, in
case that was not clear.

> One of
> them used a Japanese font.  The one that I was able to print later in
> the day from the original document was an excerpt from a journal, mostly
> text with a few simple B&W figures.  I haven't examined the others yet.
>  I'll post an update here in a bit.
> 
>> What happens if you use Acrobat to "Save As..." under a different name?
>> Does it then shrink considerably in size?

This question was about the same job.

>>> lp       26063  0.2  0.0   3204  1180 ?        S    16:59   0:00
>>> n232-hp4600 2282 userfoo smbprn.00000234 grn.pdf 1
>>> job-uuid=urn:uuid:2add51a9-f8b6-3aba-42c9-33cfbdc3a12b
>>> /var/spool/cups/d02282-001
>> A job title starting with "smbprn.000" is an indication for the job
>> having arrived via Samba, not Mac OS X. Mac OS X would talk CUPS-to-
>> CUPS and IPP, no?
>>
> 
> In our case, setting up the printer via samba on Mac clients seems to
> work the best. 

So they do indeed manually install their printers, and use the smb://
backend (which uses smbspool) to create their printers???

And *that* is supposed to work better than using CUPS browsing, which
shows the printers available on the CUPS servers automatically?

> It's the easiest for the user to do, anyway.  Otherwise,
> they have to do a bit of manual setup on the local (to their machine)
> cups server.  And if it takes more than two steps, it's too much for
> them to deal with.

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