[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#500732: CUPS overrides settings when printing from Windows
Luca Capello
luca at pca.it
Tue Jun 9 13:31:01 UTC 2009
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user irlab at unige.ch
usertags 497671 + print
usertags 500732 + print
thanks
Hi there!
Cc:ing bug #500732 as well, since IMHO they are the same. Also bcc:ing
all the people involved in both bugs, sorry for the spam.
The situation: in the lab where I work, there is a central print server
which shares printers through Avahi/Zeroconf to Windows XP and Mac OS X
Leopard clients. I found this bug because I could not get the Windows
XP clients to print recto-verso on two different HP printers, a LaserJet
4200n with the duplex unit and a Color LaserJet CP3525dn. At the same
time, however, the Mac OS X clients can print without any problem.
NB, while Mac OS X automatically recognizes the printer model and uses
the PPD installed on the CUPS print server, on Windows XP I used the
Apple Bonjour for Windows software to install the printers. By default,
the HP Color LaserJet 4550 PS driver (HP4550_6.PPD v7.21.200) is used as
"Generic / PostScript". To avoid all errors caused by this driver, I
installed the drivers specific to each printer, with no success. I
obtained similar failures with the generic Adobe PostScript driver as
well as the Microsoft Publisher Color Printer and Imagesetter ones.
I tested all the suggestion I found on both bugs and here my reports.
1) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497671#17
On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:31:44 +0200, Erik Thiele wrote:
> Mark Adams had the idea to modify mime.convs to remove the pstops
> program as follows:
>
> comment out:
> #application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 pstops
>
> replace by:
> application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 -
>
>
> now it is possible to print from windows on a3 or a4 paper, which is
> selectable in the windows cups driver.
This works perfectly for Windows XP clients, but then the Mac OS X ones
cannot print recto-verso anymore, which IMHO is normal since there is no
filter processing.
2) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=500732#30
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:09:11 +0100, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> I had the same problem and tried the suggestion at [1]:
>
> cups options = raw to smb.conf
>
> And now everything works.
>
> Beware though that this has side effects that may or may not concern you.
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg99054.html
Settings a raw printer in CUPS lets the Windows XP clients to correctly
print recto-verso. On Mac OS X, by default it does not work, because it
configures the printer as Generic PostScript, thus there is no duplex
option. However, if you choose the correct PPD at printer installation
it works as expected, but then there is no point in using Avahi/Zeroconf
printers.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii libavahi-compat 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-6+lenny1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.5 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules
ii poppler-utils [ 0.8.7-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities
ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn avahi-utils <none> (no description available)
ii cups-client 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages cups suggests:
pn cups-bsd <none> (no description available)
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4 printer drivers for CUPS
ii cups-pdf 2.4.8-3 PDF printer for CUPS
pn foomatic-db <none> (no description available)
pn foomatic-db-engine <none> (no description available)
pn hplip <none> (no description available)
pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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