"Filtering" option for port 9100 on Xerox Phaser printers, here's what I found out (thanks to a Xerox tech):
----------------- Adobe defines these as follows:
None: Passes the Data unchanged to the interpreter
InterpreterBased: Filters the input stream as necessary to conform to the language. For example, the data stream may have sent to the imaging system encoded as a TBCP postscript job and must be decoded to normal Postscript job before being passed to the interpreter.
Note: In a complete Appletalk/Macintosh environment the Filtering parameter should be set to None, or communications problems will result.
This entire section is taken directly from the Postscript Manual addendum that can be found online at the following address:
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/PS3010and3011.Supplement.pdf
Under: Interpreter Parameters 3.3.3 Device Parameters Network Parameter sets (Page 37 Table 3.6) -----------------
In practice, if you send a TBCP encoded print job to a printer which has filtering set to "None", you will get a disaster (printer hangs). If filtering is set to "InterpreterBased", it will work fine.
Additionally, I have found that sending an unencoded binary PostScript job (eg. from Photoshop on a Mac) via port 9100 to a printer which has filtering set to "None" will result in the usual sheaf of jibberish (despite what Adobe or Xerox says).
What would work would be a filter for MacOS X CUPS which encodes in TBCP. But I don't have that.
-Rick
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