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

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Fri Mar 4 23:49:47 PST 2016


El día Friday, March 04, 2016 a las 08:53:25AM -0500, Rick Cochran escribió:

> 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.

Thanks for that guess. But it is not that case. The customer reactivated
an old Win XP computer, connected the same printer through USB. It
prints fine from XP itself, but not from CUPS to the LPDSVC. The symptoms
are the same: the job arrives, gets stuck in the queue on Win for some
seconds and gets deleted.

I'm now (after this test with XP) unsure, if it is not as well a CUPS issue not
being able to produce something that the print (HP DeskJet 2510) can
understand...

	matthias

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