[opensuse] CUPS+Gutenprint+InkJet+Mac = PROBLEM
Hi! I am really desperately need some explanation of one very big issue. I am working in DTP area where ALL printing is PostScript based and vise versa (even with Ink-jet printers). I have connected Canon BJ8500 to SuSE 11.0 box (CUPS+Gutenprint 5.x), and locally it prints more or less fine (there are some color artifacts, however). Now I am trying to print the same files from the Mac on that server. On Mac I have installed Leopard version of Gutenprint (also 5.x). However, after jobs are being spooled to server, they are processing 10 min or so, and then simply disappear without a trace. Printer stands still. I have tried to switch to Generic Postscript print driver on Mac, copied Linux Gutenprint PPD on Mac, print via both Samba and IPP, nothing changes :'( Anyone could suggest where might be a problem? Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-09-24 at 23:03 +0300, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: ...
Now I am trying to print the same files from the Mac on that server. On Mac I have installed Leopard version of Gutenprint (also 5.x). However, after jobs are being spooled to server, they are processing 10 min or so, and then simply disappear without a trace. Printer stands still. I have tried to switch to Generic Postscript print driver on Mac, copied Linux Gutenprint PPD on Mac, print via both Samba and IPP, nothing changes :'(
Anyone could suggest where might be a problem?
Timeout? I think some printers (mine) have a timeout when processing postscript. Mine quits after 300 seconds. If this happens, I would have to switch to non ps mode, or buy more memory for the printer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjasooACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Ud1wCfTbZe0/RkWSSiUgWubg+fu1pt /x8AnijKYDYOgW1hfB3sPnCUL0jXIW49 =TcSx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Sep 24 23:03 Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote (shortened):
I have connected Canon BJ8500 to SuSE 11.0 box (CUPS+Gutenprint 5.x), and locally it prints more or less fine (there are some color artifacts, however).
Now I am trying to print the same files from the Mac on that server. On Mac I have installed Leopard version of Gutenprint (also 5.x). However, after jobs are being spooled to server, they are processing 10 min or so, and then simply disappear without a trace. Printer stands still. I have tried to switch to Generic Postscript print driver on Mac, copied Linux Gutenprint PPD on Mac, print via both Samba and IPP, nothing changes :'(
Not really "without a trace". See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell "If problems are encountered:" how to get debugging information to trace what actually happens. I guess that when you run Gutenprint on the Mac, the data which comes in the print job from the Mac is already printer specific binary stuff. Inspect a data file /var/spool/cups/d<job-number-file-number> of a print job which comes from the Mac if it looks like printer specific binary stuff. If such data is not autodetected as printer specific binary stuff by CUPS (see /etc/cups/mime.*), it is processed by CUPS filters to be converted into printer specific binary stuff, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell and for more details about CUPS filters, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS But when it is already printer specific binary stuff, the filters cannot convert it again into printer specific binary stuff so that the filters fail which results that the job disappears. If my assumption is right, set up an additional "raw" queue for your printer on the Linux server and let the Mac print into this "raw" queue, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell about "raw" queue. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
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Carlos E. R.
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Johannes Meixner