CUPS + DOS printing via Windows

[Alexandre Paulino Sierra da Silva]

> Alexandre Paulino Sierra da Silva wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm having problems printing from a MS-DOS program (written in Clipper, my
> > print server Debian Squeeze and CUPS 1.4.4, my printer HP Laserjet 1200),
> > the font size is printed as 10cpp, but in the program have commands to
> > print it in 15cpp. I'm sure the program is correct, because it works
> > printing to Windows, and used to work on my old server running Debian
> > Squeeze and CUPS 1.3.x. The print port is captured by NET USE. An
> > interesting detail is, in my old server there was no PPD file in
> > /etc/cups/ppd, but if I try to remove this file in my new server the
> > printer stop working.
> >
> > Any clue?
> >
> > Thank you and best regards.
>
> As the printer speaks both PCL and PS, and the DOS program probably emits
> ASCII with some ESC codes (a subset of PCL), you should set up a raw queue
> for your printer (using the lpadmin command; AFAIK setting up a raw queue
> using the web interface is a little bit tricky).
>
> If that does not work immediatley, please switch CUPS to debug-logging and
> post the portion of the error_log containing the messages of a test print
> job.
>
> Helge
>

Thank you Helge, it worked fine, I changed the printer to raw, and added the line "cups options = raw" into smb.conf.