Printing from Mtn Lion 1.6svn to 1.3.8 Debian

[Dave LeFevre]

Hi... I hope someone has some insight and can help me sort this one out.

This week the department that I work for got our first licenses for Mac Mountain Lion.  We generally set up our users using a standard tarball and script that puts a printers.conf into place and sets all the printers up in raw mode using lpadmin.  Though this system was created before my time at this job I think we set up a printers.conf so that our users can take their laptops home and set up additional printers, etc.

In the printers.conf DeviceURIs are all simply something like this:

DeviceURI ipp://[our cups server]:631/printers/[printername]

It is printing to a Debian package based CUPS server that is currently running 1.3.8.  This produces nothing but a cover page (which is inserted by the debian server) and a "No Pages Found" error.  We've looked at the server's error log and there is nothing of interest there, and access logs on both the Mac and the debian machine even seem to indicate that the print was successful.

Before you simply say "that should be upgraded" (and I agree), we are working on moving to a 1.4-based server.  Admins are working on that and we have one up for testing and CUPS configured pretty much the same as the older server.  The Mac's 1.6svn CUPS server seems to print with no problem to the newer CUPS 1.4-based server.

Does anyone have any idea of what setup tweaks I might need to do (mostly in Printers.conf since PPDs seem to have nothing to do with the issue) to get the Mountain Lion version to talk with the 1.3.8 version (besides getting the server upgrade completed)?  I can't seem to find anything that indicates that 1.6 should have a problem talking to a 1.3 server, and new Macs our clients are starting to buy have this version of CUPS as their standard.