Printing cups options proposal

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Mar 23 13:19:32 GMT 2004


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Lars Müller wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I would propose an additional option 'printing cups options'.
| If this option is set - for example to 'raw' - we use the CUPS
| API instead of the IPP API. By default 'printing cups options' are
| set to nothing and we are still using the IPP API as before.
|
| With this change we are no longer impelled to allow raw
| printing in CUPS in general. As most of you know raw printing
| is disabled by default in CUPS and leads with some Microsoft
| or vendor printer drivers to rejected print jobs.
|
| Find a first patch attached. I'll write documentation
| if it's worth.

Lars,

I'll try to work on this tomorrow some.  Thanks.





cheers, jerry
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