On Sunday 17 February 2008 00:36:03 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 23:25 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
AH! The conversion takes place in the print server, not in CUPS? Is that right? That doesn't seem right: where would it take place if this were not a network printer, but were connected directly to the computer, with no print server?
There are several conversions.
First, whatever you want to print is converted to postscript. This can be done directly by the application, or by a component of cups. Then cups, if the printer understands postscript, sends it to the printer. If not, cups can convert to the language the printer understands.
If it is a remote printer, cups sends the postscript print data to the remote server, who is responsible to send to the printer, converting the postscript to the printer language if necessary - and this last step is failing, as I understand it.
There maybe a method to do the conversion locally, but that I don't know.
Is it possible that the problem involves Ghostscript? Is Ghostscript configurable? After a more relaxed inspection of the printer's specs, I see that it supports PCL6 (which I know is not Postscript). But I've sent off a query to Brother asking whether there is either a driver or a firmware update making Postscript support possible. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org