[cups] Linux->(Linux, Windows) printer sharing with drivers on the server

[Ivan Shapovalov]

On 2016-05-19 at 17:46 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Thu 19 May 2016 at 17:49:58 +0300, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> 
> > There are four possible configurations for remote printing with
> > cups:
> > 0. Do not run cupsd on client, connect directly to cupsd on server
> >    (ruled out because it is too invasive)
> 
> I was going to suggest you stick a note on a notice board with Alex
> Korobkin's advice or the CUPS_SERVER environment variable on it
> but...:)
> 
> cupsd does not need to stopped.
> 
> Am I correct in assuming you have no control of clients wanting to
> access the server?

Exactly.

> 
> > 1. Use printer-specific driver on client and "raw queue" on server,
> >    send printer-specific data
> > 2. Use "raw queue" on client and printer-specific driver on server,
> >    send application-specific data (read pdfs)
> > 3. Use generic postscript driver on client and printer-specific
> >    driver on server, send postscript
> > 
> > Windows->Windows does (1). The article suggests (2). I want (3) for
> > performance reasons.
> 
> Your perceived performance problems might disappear (or be mitigated,
> at
> least) by using one of the hpcups PPDs, which require a non-free
> plugin.
> In a quick test with a largish, moderately complex PDF the processing
> time of the filters went from 40 seconds to 10 seconds.

This was the first thing I tried. Using hpcups is even slower.
BTW, I still need HPLIP's non-free firmware to initialize the printer.

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Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /