[Samba] Samba 3.0 and the HP PSC 750 printer (printing over cups)

[Grosswiler Roger]

still have this problems using the hp psc750. found now some funny entries
in my logs...

printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(756)  Unable to print file to usblp0 -
client-error-document-format-not-supported : 2 Time(s)

seems that i have a format-problem....but where???

HEEEEEEEEEEELP!!
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>> [Samba] Samba 3.0 and the HP PSC 750 printer (printing over cups)
>>
>>     * To: samba at listsdotsambadotorg
>>     * Subject: [Samba] Samba 3.0 and the HP PSC 750 printer (printing
>> over cups)
>>     * From: "Grosswiler Roger" <roger at gwchdotnet>
>>     * Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:34:27 +0100 (CET)
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> i have samba 3.0 on a fedora-linux running. almost everyting works fine,
>> except one printer, my hp psc 750 (connected via usb) is not printing
>> via
>> samba.
>>
>> I get pages printed (via cups or whatever) if i print from the
>> localhost.
>>
>> So, here a few data from my smb.conf:
>>    printcap name = cups
>>    printing = cups
>>    load printers = yes
>> [printers]
>>    comment = All Printers
>>    path = /var/spool/samba
>>    browseable = no
>> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
>>    public = yes
>>    guest ok = yes
>>    writable = no
>>    printable = yes
>>
>> any idea??
>>
>
> If there is a "PPD" file involved with your printing setup,
> have you by any chance checked it against the online CUPS PPD
> validator? See here:
>
>    http://www.cups.org/testppd
>
> or run the "cupstestppd" program yourself....

cupstest:
 cupstestppd /etc/cups/ppd/usblp0.ppd
/etc/cups/ppd/usblp0.ppd: PASS
 a nice result....the printer prints locally without any problem. its just
samba no printing... see info at top from my logs.
>
> Which version of CUPS are you using? Which drivers are you
> using on the Windows client side?
>
> If you are using by any chance the "client sends PostScript,
> CUPS converts for non-PS target printer"-approach, then:
> which PostScript driver are you using on the clients?
>
> There is a little issue with the PPD generated by PPD-o-matic
> (on http://www.linuxprinting.org/): The user visible translation
> strings, indicating the print options for the various GUIs, may
> contain more than 40 characters (which is "legal" according to
> the Adobe PPD specification), but the CUPS PostScript driver for
> WinNT/2k/XP does not correctly work with these PPDs....
>
> There are 3 possible workarounds:
>
>   * enable the checkbox of the online-PPD-generator at Linuxprinting.org
>     to limit the strings to 40 chars per line and generate a new PPD
>     for the  HP PSC 750:
>
>       http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hpijs
>       (don't forget to check the "GUI texts limited to 39 characters"
> box!)
>
>   * use the Adobe PostScript drivers instead of the CUPS PostScript
>     driver (may give you some other drawbacks)
>
>   * upgrade to the current RC1 of the version 5 of the CUPS PostScript
>     driver (which now is digesting 80 characters per string)
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt
>
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