printout times SunOS spooler ./. CUPS 1.4.3

Paul paul.conklin at cerner.com
Mon Jun 6 08:30:06 PDT 2011


**NOTE**
if you print various types of jobs through this device, You will probably have to make a custom mime.type and mime.convs to force them all to use the dummy filter.  you would also have to alter the ppd. that PPD is assuming that all jobs coming through are of type text/plain.

i.e.
dummy.types
application/dummy

dummy.convs
application/pdf                 application/dummy 0 -
application/postscript          application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.hp-HPGL         application/dummy 0 -
image/gif                       application/dummy 0 -
image/png                       application/dummy 0 -
image/jpeg                      application/dummy 0 -
image/tiff                      application/dummy 0 -
image/x-photocd                 application/dummy 0 -
image/x-portable-anymap         application/dummy 0 -
image/x-portable-bitmap         application/dummy 0 -
image/x-portable-graymap        application/dummy 0 -
image/x-portable-pixmap         application/dummy 0 -
image/x-sgi-rgb                 application/dummy 0 -
image/x-xbitmap                 application/dummy 0 -
image/x-xpixmap                 application/dummy 0 -
image/x-sun-raster              application/dummy 0 -
image/x-alias                   application/dummy 0 -
image/x-bitmap                  application/dummy 0 -
image/x-icon                    application/dummy 0 -
application/x-cshell            application/dummy 0 -
application/x-perl              application/dummy 0 -
application/x-shell             application/dummy 0 -
application/x-csource           application/dummy 0 -
text/html                       application/dummy 0 -
text/plain                      application/dummy 0 -
text/css                        application/dummy 0 -
application/rss+xml             application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-command    application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-form       application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-pdf        application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-postscript application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-ppd        application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-raster     application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-raw        application/dummy 0 -
application/vnd.cups-pcl        application/dummy 0 -
application/octet-stream        application/dummy 0 -

change dummy.ppd from text/plain to application/dummy

> See my post here
> http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s22859+gcups.general+v22866+T0
> for an interim fix if it is snmp until 1.4.7 is up
>
> if that works on one, I just used a loop to assign the dummy driver to each printer
>
> for line in `lpstat -v | cut -f3 -d' ' | cut -f1 -d:`
> do
> lpamdin -p $line -P dummy.ppd
> done
>
> > Most likely this is caused by the SNMP supply/status lookups. The forthcoming CUPS 1.4.7 release fixes this issue by disabling them for raw queues.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > we are migrating SunOS customers from the old SunOS spooler lpsched to CUPS
> > > 1.4.3 and are facing the following interesting problem:
> > >
> > > in both systems the LAN printer is configured as raw IP to port 9100 and it
> > > is the same model;
> > >
> > > if you fire up 20x "lp -c -d druck6 file" from a shell script or with CUPS
> > > 20x "lpr -l -P druck6 file" with the same ~1 KByte PCL file, it takes
> > >
> > > lpsched: 92 secs
> > > CUPS: 203 secs
> > >
> > > and you can hear short delays while the pages send out from CUPS get
> > > printed;
> > >
> > > before watching the details with TCPDUMP, is there any explanation for this?
> > > note: it is only plain PCL, no PostScript gets involved;
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >        matthias
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