Printer initialization String Eatten?!?!

[Darek]

So to give a little background on the process.  We run oracle apps on a sun hardware platform using sol9.  I used the default LP utilities and all works well.  Since then I have another instance running sol10 and I decided to install CUPS to service my printing needs.  Printers are configured using ppd drivers I found of the site.  (They are on jetdirects (external/internal) configured using the appSocket/HP JetDirect for device. Not every Jetdirect appeared with IP addy in the selection so I used that).  The printers seem to process jobs just fine.  Except when it comes to formatting.  Oracle sends init strings to the jobs which formats them in a certain way (Font Size, Type, etc) and this gets neglected.  I also have some files that i have init codes hard coded right at the beginning of the file and those get sent to the printer and they actually print as part of the job not interpreted.

I tried to modify the /opt/sfw/cups/etc/cups/mime.convs file to eliminate filters. I just changed textops in text/plain to a -.

I tried to use raw instead of print drivers.

I looked into the setups with cups on the printers themselves and I don't see anything about forcing a font size. (this wouldn't necessarily solve the problem).

I tried to find someone else with this problem and I really didn't find anything out there.  So it leads me to believe I have a unique problem, or I don't know how to use keywords in searches.  Perhaps i'm just looking in the wrong places.

I dunno whats happening but I have a feeling I don't know something on PostScript and how that is integrated with PCL.  Or just that the lp cmd has been changed to ignore those init strings. I'm no printing expert. :(

CUPS Version 1.2.12

Below is just a log entry showing the job go through the queue.

I [17/Sep/2008:16:00:50 +0600] Job 147 queued on "1_it_gen" by "dbaone".
I [17/Sep/2008:16:00:50 +0600] Started filter /opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 10040) for job 147.
I [17/Sep/2008:16:00:50 +0600] Started filter /opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 10041) for job 147.
I [17/Sep/2008:16:00:50 +0600] Started backend /opt/sfw/cups/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 10042) for job 147.

I would appreciate any feedback.

Thank You,

Darek