On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 08:12, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:30:41PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > > BTW: The above testing on RH9 produces no output for test 1 and works > > > correctly for test 2. The "cups options" parm is not available in RH9's > > > samba. I must uncomment the mime.* octet-stream lines for RH9 to print > > > PS from windows, but not PCL. I would have expected the opposite. > > *groan* it's (of course) more complicated, as Michael Sweet pointed > out to me on the CUPS list: > > "As long as you are using the CUPS or Adobe drivers for your queues > (and not the vendor drivers for a non-PS printer), that line is > unnecessary and will only cause raw PostScript to be printed on > non-PS printers." > > So it turns out *not* to be the case that all Windows-submitted jobs > are necessarily already rasterized. > > This just seems like samba should be handling it and setting 'raw' > when necessary (and only then). > > Tim. > */ > > ______________________________________________________________________ Tim, Am I missing something? What does it mean *not* all windows-submitted jobs are necessarily rasterized? Does this imply that windows is doing something different to the data of the print job for a remote printer than it does for a locally connected printer? I would think that if a printer speaks some printing language (i.e. PS, PCL, epson-ese), window's spooled data, whether sent to a samba server or directly to the printer should be the same. Therefore, "cups options = raw" should always work for a samba served printer. Bob...
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