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

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Fri Mar 4 07:14:34 PST 2016


> Am 04.03.2016 um 14:53 schrieb Rick Cochran <rcc2 at cornell.edu>:
> 
> I wonder if perhaps this is a "Version 4" driver issue.
> 
> Starting with Server 2012, Microsoft created a new print driver environment called "version 4" or "Class" drivers. They have a lot of very good features (google it), but they accept only "xps" format print jobs. Thus you cannot print to a Server 2012 machine which uses Version 4 drivers from either an OS X or a Linux machine.
> 
> I believe Microsoft changed their driver system for Windows 8 at about the same time, and of course Windows 10 would have carried that forward.
> 
> Just a guess. Could be wrong.
> 
> -Rick

There is a CUPS filter, gstoxps (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/gstoxps <https://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/gstoxps>).
It seems to need a Ghostscript version >= 9.10.

Helge


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