Cancel that! Thank you for all you guy's help. I had the printer in CUPs configured as an HP (which it is...). I set it to RAW, and now both sides are working fine. Still don't understand what was wrong with HP though. :) Thanks again.
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:41, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Okay, I have done as you said: > > Printing from Unix -> Cups, the image is fine. > > I have added the printer in W2K, as a IPP printer (W2K supports that), I > set the driver to the correct driver, but the image quality is not good. > So, this is obviously not samba's fault. > > Hope you don't mind me asking here then, what could hte problem be? What > would windows see differently with CUPs/Samba VS Unix? Windows to > Windows works, Windows to Cups or Samba doesn't! > > On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:24, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:01, Jerry Haltom wrote: > > > Okay! I've managed to defeat this obstacle. I did it all manually using > > > smbclient and rpcclient. Printer drivers work. > > > > > > However, Windows is producing VERY VERY BAD quality output. Totally > > > grainy. It does not do this when using hte printer through the normal > > > WIndows server's shared printer (this is a TCP/IP printer, directly > > > supporting IPP, we are using the windows server/samba servers just to > > > centralize it). > > > > > > Windows is using the native drivers for this printer, which are > > > postscript. So, I assume, samba shold be receiving a postscript file > > > from Windows, and in turn sending that to cups... so at first glance I > > > wouldn't think Samba was at fault... but since it only happens when > > > samba is involved, I don't know. > > > > Try removing Samba - print using IPP to the CUPS server. > > > > Also, check you are using the postscript drivers for the printer in CUPS > > - you don't want CUPS rendering it to PCL (or whatever your printers > > also speak) if you can avoid it. > > > > Andrew Bartlett -- Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback Plus, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba