-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 01:33 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
Is it possible that the problem involves Ghostscript? Is Ghostscript configurable?
No. Yes. I don't think gs is the problem because your cups side is converting to postscript. You can check creating a local printer that prints to file (I think).
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.
I think the problem is simply a bad configuration at the print server, or a configuration that cups on your machine doesn't handle well. It should not matter whether the remote printer understands postscript directly or not, as long as it's controlling server knows how to convert postscript to PCL6. Did you say the printer server model? Perhaps a web site I can look the specifications? I'm thinking that your print server simply sends what it gets from the network directly to the printer without treatment, and that is wrong for cups, but fine for windows. I explain: Windows works differently, because it sends native printer data. On a windows network the client machines have the printer driver convert gdi calls to printer output (PCL) locally, and this is sent to the printer, which can be local or remote. All clients must do the conversion locally. In linux the clients do no conversion to printer language: in all cases they send to the remote print server as postscript, and it is this remote server who converts to PCL (or whatever the printer understands). This is an improvement on (and a consequence of) the original method that required linux printers to understand postscript. See the difference? I believe you are a victim of this. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt4WqtTMYHG2NR9URAkubAJ46dkZ7MGEdITMWnVC/2W9kgwfpMgCdGQUN xxgArUG8imlAzRiIjqngAfM= =1Hle -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org