[cups] Windows bypasses cups drivers

[Maarten Suetens]

Hello Johannes,

First of all thanks for the interest.
Would there be a way to make the print server re-evaluate the job that 
it gets from the windows client using specific PS driver and apply its 
own settings(grayscale) on that job, or would that not be possible.

Kind regards,
Maarten


On 19/05/2014 12:42, Johannes Meixner wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On May 19 09:32 Maarten Suetens wrote (excerpt):
>> When i add the printer to Windows using printer specific PS driver,
>> the settings configured on the server are completely ignored
>
> When you use a printer specific driver, that driver produces the
> final printer specific data that is then forwared "as is" to
> the printer device.
>
> Reason:
> In general it cannot work when final printer specific data
> should be processed by another subsequent driver.
> In short: Only one single driver for a printer works.
>
> For background information see for example
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_from_Windows_to_Linux
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner