On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Glenn Sieb wrote: > A few days ago, on the LPRng mailing list, I posted a weird problem with > our Canon ImageRUNNER 600 and LPRng... turns out it's not a problem with > LPRng... rather, it's an issue with a slightly-misleading option for Samba > printers, and a bug with Canon's PCL processor. > > In Samba, you have the option to say "Postscript = Yes", which doesn't mean > "This is a postscript printer" but rather "this printer takes postscript > all the time, so please add "%!" to the beginning of all jobs to it!" HP > Printers are smart enough to see the PCL code in the job and go "Oh > gee--this isn't really postscript... we'll just process it with > PCL..." The Canon goes "Oh--oops--here's a %!.. must be plaintext cuz > there's an Escape and some PCL.. I'll just print the "%!" and a pagefeed" > > So mystery solved... hopefully this will help others out there with the > Canon ImageRUNNER class copiers--and Samba guys--can you change that option > to say "Force Postscript"? *duck&run* :))))))
To be honest, I don't know why this parameter is even still around. :-) :-) Maybe just to confuse people. I'll look into it. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
