[cups.general] Big jobs only print using cups in RAW mode and Universal driver in Windows

[Salatiel Filho]

Michael, i few things that i've just discovered.
1) I can print the same job to a HP LaserJet 4200 and it prints fine.
But when i send to the Color Laser Jet CP6015 the job just disappear ,
though the BANNER page is printed, so somehow the job data was lost.
2) When i print from the windows machine, normally i can see "Spooling
data ..." and the job size will increase very slowly ,  and after
spooling the real job size will grow very fast right before get
printed. [Windows will show "Printing" ]. When i try to print on the
HP4200 the job will get to 540Kb and then starts to grow until about
800Mb when it will be printed, but when i send to the cp6015 the job
gets to the 540Kb, the "spooling data" message disappear , but the
"Printing" message NEVER appears , and at this point the banner page
will get printed, and i noticed cups will show a completed job of
540Kb.
3) If i put the printer in RAW mode , and use the HP UNIVERSAL COLOR
LASERJET DRIVER, i can see the real size of the job at about 4GB, and
it will get printed.
4) I put cups in debug mode and i can see in logs that the only filter
that is being called after the banner be printed is gziptoany.

I  hope this information be useful.

Any ideas ? I tried to print the same job in another COLOR LASERJET
and again only the banner page appeared.




On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 14:27, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Salatiel Filho wrote:
>
>> Sorry , forgot most of the useful information.
>> I am running redhat 5.464bits , cups 1.3.8, ext3 partition.
>> What you mean by filesize limits ? I suppose ext3 max file size should
>> handle any job.
>
> EXT3 has a 16GB limit with the default block size of 1kB. The per-user limits on file size ("ulimit -a") can also kick in, even for cupsd, and if you are printing via Samba it may also impose limits.
>
>> anything else i can provide ?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:57, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>>> What operating system are you using on the CUPS server?
>>>
>>> What file system are you using on the CUPS server?
>>>
>>> What are the file size limits set to?
>>>
>>> On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Salatiel Filho wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to print a big file  [2GB] and i can not make it work if i
>>>> set the correct PPD in cups and export the drivers for windows using
>>>> cupsaddsmb.
>>>> This happens only with my HP6015, if i send to the HP4200, it will
>>>> print , but on 6015 windows will show "Sending data to spool" but the
>>>> job will never get printed. But if i put the printer in cups as RAW
>>>> and use HP Universal Color LaserJet driver , the job prints fine.
>>>> What should i do to fix this ? I don't want to use cups in RAW mode.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> []'s
>>>> Salatiel
>>>>
>>>> "O maior prazer do inteligente é bancar o  idiota
>>>>   diante de um  idiota que banca o inteligente".
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>> Salatiel
>>
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Salatiel

"O maior prazer do inteligente é bancar o  idiota
   diante de um  idiota que banca o inteligente".