Graham Smith wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:21, Phil Scarratt wrote:
Thanks Graham and Michael so far. Well now installing on Ubuntu freezes
when you get to the end of the gnome-add wizardy thingy (haven't tried
lpadmin yet). Window$ box still no progress. Think I might ditch it and
share the printer via samba.
Fil
The other way is to create a raw printer instance and use that as your windows
printer.
The problem you are having is that windows puts raw data out to the printer.
This is then sent to the ppd file in cups which tries to reformat it for the
attached printer. So you either get garbage or no data sent to the printer.
What you want is for CUPS not to process the file but pass it directly onto
the printer.
You can setup another instance using lpoptions, see the man page for more
details or add another printer to the queue with the raw option set.
Ahh that's given me the key...On the windows side I installed a
postscript driver for a completely different printer and all works fine.
Obviously there is something not quite working with the raw processing
on the cups server in spite of "enabling" it in mime files in /etc/cups.
And now all of a sudden my ubuntu box does also, using a different
driver also. I think the driver I had on the ubuntu box for the printer
is stuffed (I actually installed it via alien - think I might try
compiling it).
Thanks Graham and Michael.
Fil
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