<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> user irlab@unige.ch usertags 497671 + print usertags 500732 + print thanks Hi there! Cc:ing bug #500732 as well, since IMHO they are the same. Also bcc:ing all the people involved in both bugs, sorry for the spam. The situation: in the lab where I work, there is a central print server which shares printers through Avahi/Zeroconf to Windows XP and Mac OS X Leopard clients. I found this bug because I could not get the Windows XP clients to print recto-verso on two different HP printers, a LaserJet 4200n with the duplex unit and a Color LaserJet CP3525dn. At the same time, however, the Mac OS X clients can print without any problem. NB, while Mac OS X automatically recognizes the printer model and uses the PPD installed on the CUPS print server, on Windows XP I used the Apple Bonjour for Windows software to install the printers. By default, the HP Color LaserJet 4550 PS driver (HP4550_6.PPD v7.21.200) is used as "Generic / PostScript". To avoid all errors caused by this driver, I installed the drivers specific to each printer, with no success. I obtained similar failures with the generic Adobe PostScript driver as well as the Microsoft Publisher Color Printer and Imagesetter ones. I tested all the suggestion I found on both bugs and here my reports. 1) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497671#17 On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:31:44 +0200, Erik Thiele wrote: > Mark Adams had the idea to modify mime.convs to remove the pstops > program as follows: > > comment out: > #application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 pstops > > replace by: > application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 - > > > now it is possible to print from windows on a3 or a4 paper, which is > selectable in the windows cups driver. This works perfectly for Windows XP clients, but then the Mac OS X ones cannot print recto-verso anymore, which IMHO is normal since there is no filter processing. 2) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=500732#30 On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:09:11 +0100, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > I had the same problem and tried the suggestion at [1]: > > cups options = raw to smb.conf > > And now everything works. > > Beware though that this has side effects that may or may not concern you. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg99054.html Settings a raw printer in CUPS lets the Windows XP clients to correctly print recto-verso. On Mac OS X, by default it does not work, because it configures the printer as Generic PostScript, thus there is no duplex option. However, if you choose the correct PPD at printer installation it works as expected, but then there is no point in using Avahi/Zeroconf printers. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libavahi-compat 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-6+lenny1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.5 OpenSLP libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils [ 0.8.7-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL Versions of packages cups recommends: pn avahi-utils <none> (no description available) ii cups-client 1.3.8-1lenny5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil pn smbclient <none> (no description available) Versions of packages cups suggests: pn cups-bsd <none> (no description available) ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4 printer drivers for CUPS ii cups-pdf 2.4.8-3 PDF printer for CUPS pn foomatic-db <none> (no description available) pn foomatic-db-engine <none> (no description available) pn hplip <none> (no description available) pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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