The printers are on the network and are physically connected to a Linux box that shares the ports 9100 and 9101. CUPS prints to them using the socket:// protocol. Nothing there has changed.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:14 -0600, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Is it the same physical box (I'm guessing no based on 4x processor > improvement)? The speed thing makes me thing the printer port type > has changed. (SPP, EPP, or ECP from slowest to fastest). That's > usually set in the motherboard bios. Obviously that won't matter if > it's printing remotely, but if the printer is local, that's where I'd > bet my money. > > Kev. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roy Souther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:42 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: [clug-talk] Why does changing the distro mess up > CUPS? > > > I upgraded a server from Mandrake 10 to Debian, setup CUPS to > use the same printer drives for the OKI Data 9 pin. The > printing is of by about 6cm to the left now and I cannot move > the paper on the roller any more to make it line up again. I > ran an md5sum on the ppd file s in /etc/cups/ppd and found > they are exactly the same on the Debian system as they are on > the Mandrake one. > > This has happened before with an OpenOffice document that I > used to print labels, after upgrading from Mandrake to Suse on > my desktop that time the labels were way off and not just from > the side but also from the top and I think in scale also. > > Any idea why cups would do this or how I can fix it? The > customer is not happy with the new Debian system because they > need to columns to line up on the pre-printed invoice sheets. > > I was thinking that maybe cups is using an external font to > generate the output but I cannot find any indication in the > code that it is using an external font file, but this would > make sense because people are also complaining that the new > server is printing much slower now even though the CPU is four > times fasts and has a lot more RAM. The server runs faster and > the print job starts fine but the head of the 9 pin printer > moves much slower. WTFIUWT? > > What other config files should I look at that may affect the > layout and speed of printing from cups? > > > Royce Souther > www.SiliconTao.com > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by > GnuPG. > > > > Royce Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG.
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