CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Wed Jul 13 01:25:32 PDT 2011


> > See
> > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1010
> > Kyocera's website states that this printer speaks pcl as well.
> >
>
> Yes, I have checked the page before and tested in Ghostscript all the
> mentioned drivers 'ljet4', 'ljet4d' and 'pxlmono'; the PCL output is just
> not understood by the printer or is mangled by the Windows spooler sw
> before it goes to the printer itself; I have asked the customer to provide me
> one of the printers and the spooling software and will check in detail
> (for example connecting the USB printer directly a UNIX running CUPS)
> what's going on;

It turned out that the Windows print spooler software (Muli-TE) have had enabled the 'LF->CRLF' handling which of course mangled the image in the PCL file; after disabling this, all is fine now

    matthias




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