[cups] Windows printing from CUPS on Mac

[Michael Sweet]

Johannes,

> On Oct 23, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Oct 22 15:18 Michael Sweet wrote (excerpt):
>> Windows supports IPP/1.0, which means using
>> http://servername/printers/queuename for the URL.
>> Beyond that you'll need local drivers and make sure
>> that the CUPS server recognizes the drivers' file
>> formats as application/vnd.cups-raw.
> 
> Is there a generic way how to do the latter
> or must each kind of Windows drivers' printer-specific format
> explicitly listed in a CUPS mime.types file?

No, you just need to look at the output and write matching rules...

> What about things like Windows PostScript printer driver output?
> Is there a generic way to distinguish printer-specific PostScript
> from not-yet-printer-specific PostScript?

That depends...

> Does it make sense also for CUPS on Mac to set up for
> each normal queue a "raw" queue "twin" to ensure that
> Windows drivers' output is sent unchanged to the printer
> device as described at
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_from_Windows_to_Linux

That wouldn't be the way I would do it, especially for large numbers of printers.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair