PPD custom options

Franz Pfoertsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.com
Thu Oct 25 06:33:16 PDT 2007


Hello

I need some more explanation of the ppd custom options http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/spec-ppd.html

I try to print into a "mailbox" of a multifunction device from 
Canon (ir C2880). All selections are done by Canon PJLs.

so I expandet the PPD with 

+ *% === Job Control Language ==
+
+ *JCLBegin: "<1B>%-12345X at PJL JOB<0A>"
+ *JCLToPSInterpreter: "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = Postscript <0A>"
+ *% JCLEnd: "<1B>%-12345X at PJL EOJ <0A><1B>%-12345X"
+
+
+ *% Base JCL key code option
+ *OpenUI JCLMailbox/Mailbox: PickOne
+ *OrderDependency: 10 JCLSetup *JCLMailbox
+ *DefaultJCLMailbox: None
+ *JCLMailbox None/No mailbox: ""
+ *JCLMailbox 0: "@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX<0A>@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=O<0A>"
+ *JCLMailbox 1: "@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX<0A>@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=1<0A>"
+ *JCLMailbox 2: "@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX<0A>@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=2<0A>"
+ *JCLMailbox 3: "@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX<0A>@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=3<0A>"
+ *JCLMailbox 4: "@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX<0A>@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=4<0A>"
+ *JCLMailbox 5: "@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX<0A>@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=5<0A>"
+ *JCLCloseUI: *JCLMailbox
+

Now I configured the printer and published the driver with cupsaddsmb/webinterface to samba.
Every thing  works fine and I am really happy with it.

Now I stopped the printer and printed something into the mailbox nr 5 and  I got the following datastream into /var/spool/cups/d....

---8<----
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%cupsJobTicket: job-hold-until=no-hold
%cupsJobTicket: job-sheets=none,none
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=5
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Title: Microsoft Office Outlook - Memoformat
%%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
---8<----

No I thought I have won, but the datastream transferd to the printer looks like this:
---8<----

ESC%-12345X at PJL
@PJL JOB NAME = "smbprn.00000073 Microsoft Office Outlook - Memoformat" DISPLAY = "293 pfoerfr smbprn.00000073 Microsoft Office Outlook - Memoformat"
@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = "293 pfoerfr smbprn.00000073 Microsoft Office Outlook - Memoformat"
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = Postscript
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%For: (pfoerfr)
%%Title: (smbprn.00000073 Microsoft Office Outlook - Memoformat)
%RBINumCopies: 1
%%Pages: (atend)
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%EndComments
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=5
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Title: Microsoft Office Outlook - Memoformat
%%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
%%CreationDate: 10/25/2007 15:11:51
%%For: pfoerfr
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%Pages: (atend)
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%PageOrder: Ascend
---8<----

and the printer printed PJL error

I copied the @PJL COMMENT CANPJL .. lines into the @PJL header and everything works fine.

Now my questions
a) Did I make a mistake?
b) I that the wrong tool for the job?
c) Is there a bug inside of pstops


regard
Franz 








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