[Samba] Add Printer Wizard

[Jerry Haltom]

Cancel that! Thank you for all you guy's help. I had the printer in CUPs
configured as an HP (which it is...). I set it to RAW, and now both
sides are working fine. Still don't understand what was wrong with HP
though. :) Thanks again.

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:41, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> Okay, I have done as you said:
> 
> Printing from Unix -> Cups, the image is fine.
> 
> I have added the printer in W2K, as a IPP printer (W2K supports that), I
> set the driver to the correct driver, but the image quality is not good.
> So, this is obviously not samba's fault.
> 
> Hope you don't mind me asking here then, what could hte problem be? What
> would windows see differently with CUPs/Samba VS Unix? Windows to
> Windows works, Windows to Cups or Samba doesn't!
> 
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:24, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:01, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> > > Okay! I've managed to defeat this obstacle. I did it all manually using
> > > smbclient and rpcclient. Printer drivers work.
> > > 
> > > However, Windows is producing VERY VERY BAD quality output. Totally
> > > grainy. It does not do this when using hte printer through the normal
> > > WIndows server's shared printer (this is a TCP/IP printer, directly
> > > supporting IPP, we are using the windows server/samba servers just to
> > > centralize it).
> > > 
> > > Windows is using the native drivers for this printer, which are
> > > postscript. So, I assume, samba shold be receiving a postscript file
> > > from Windows, and in turn sending that to cups... so at first glance I
> > > wouldn't think Samba was at fault... but since it only happens when
> > > samba is involved, I don't know.
> > 
> > Try removing Samba - print using IPP to the CUPS server.
> > 
> > Also, check you are using the postscript drivers for the printer in CUPS
> > - you don't want CUPS rendering it to PCL (or whatever your printers
> > also speak) if you can avoid it.
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett 
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