[cups] printing from CUPS 2.0.3 with LPD to a Windows 8.1 box USB printer

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, March 03, 2016 a las 10:23:27AM +0100, Johannes Meixner escribió:

> To find out whether or not your particular printer model
> prints PostScript or ASCII as plain text, connect it to
> a Unix/Linux computer and send PostScript or plain ASCII
> directly to the printer, for Linux cf. "USB printers" in
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_a_Printer

Linux is not involved here, only FreeBSD. And I can not attach the USB
printer to the FreeBSD box. My original post stated the model as
HPDeskjet2510 which understand (following hp.com) HP PCL 3 Enhanced as
language and perhaps prints Postscript and/or text just as text.

We did also tests sending PCL from FreeBSD to the queue on Win8.1, same
result: stuck there.

My original post have had two screens from the Win8.1 station, which
have been deleted from the list server, they are here:

http://www.unixarea.de/screenshot1_lpd.PNG
http://www.unixarea.de/screenshot2_lpd.PNG

> But you wrote in your initial mail:
> 
> > the job is transfered as Postscript file to the Win8.1;
> > but in Windows the job gets stuck and does not print.
> 
> What does "the job gets stuck" mean?
> 
> Does it mean there is a print job in Windows and that
> one does not get printed?

Yes. See the screens.

	matthias
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