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

[Grosswiler Roger]

....and i am sure this is an effect on Samba 3.0, as on the local system i
can print on this printer

> 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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