[cups.general] Apple Cups Solution

[Tom Allison]

I have found the solution to something that might be of value to the 
Cups community.

Apple made some changes with the Leopard installation that causes some 
problems with printing.  Namely, they removed the client configuration 
and some applications seem to just crash for me.

Namely, Preview, Safari and others will crash almost immediately after 
attempting to print anything.  Meanwhile, non Apple products, like 
Mozilla and Firefox can print once you copy the cups client.conf file 
into the right location.

Apple gave a highly Microsoft-ish solution.  You must have done the 
upgrade (to Leopard) wrong.  You'll have to format and reinstall.



Here's a fix that is consistent with Apple and Cups and won't require 
you to do anything stupid:

on the apple computer go to localhost:631 and add a printer.
Make it a IPP printer using the URL from the cups server to see the 
printer queue.  Example: 
http://192.168.1.2:631/printers/Kyocera_FS-1010_USB_2.  Except change 
the http to ipp.

Set it to RAW.  This passes everything to the parent server and 
processes the content there and not at your apple computer.

This seems to work very well on several computers I've set up so far.

But the essentials of the solution are to use the localhost cups server 
to queue and pass the print jobs to the next print server.

I hope someone finds this helpful.  I certainly did but it took me days 
to find the solution.