Cups Windows Drivers .... copies ignored?

[Helge Blischke]

Jacob Brown wrote:

> So looking at the data coming from the windows driver, those lines are:
> 
> featurebegin{
> %%BeginNonPPDFeature: NumCopies 3
> 3  /languagelevel where {pop languagelevel}{1} ifelse
> 2 ge { 1 dict dup /NumCopies 4 -1 roll put setpagedevice }{ userdict
> /#copies 3 -1 roll put } ifelse %%EndNonPPDFeature
> }featurecleanup
> 
> I'll look some more in the source code to see if I can find where the
> "copies" information is getting lost.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> It should use one of the following commands:
>>
>>      /#copies N def
>>
>>      <</NumCopies N>>setpagedevice
>>
>> and will probably be between the %%BeginNonPPDFeature and %
>> %EndNonPPDFeature comments.
>>
>> This copy information ends up in the raster header (for CUPS drivers)
>> or in the PostScript output stream (for PostScript drivers).
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Jacob Brown wrote:
>>
>> > How should the Windows driver be embedding the number of copies?
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Jacob Brown wrote:
>> >>> I see the windows driver embedding it as "%%BeginNonPPDFeature:
>> >>> NumCopies 3".  Not sure if this is right or not.  I saw in the
>> >>> pstops.c code that it was called something else, but wasn't reading
>> >>> the original number of copies from the incoming postscript stream.
>> >>> The two drivers I've tried so far is "Generic Postscript", and a
>> >>> third party driver that comes with it's own filter.
>> >>>
>> >>> Where in CUPS is it supposed to be parsing the "%
>> >>> %BeginNonPPDFeature: NumCopeies" or whatever it is supposed to be
>> >>> called?
>> >>
>> >> CUPS never looks at these sorts of comments.
>> >>
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You idid not tell us how your printer is configured in CUPS, especially what
backend is used to connect to the printer.

Helge