samba - Sep 2004 - Cannot get HP1055CM Color Plotter to work with "Point and Click"

G'day All,

We are using Samba 3.0.6 as a PDC and print server. The OS is RHEL 3.0.
I've gone thru the procedure detailed in "The Official Samba
Howto..."
book and the other HP and Lexmark LaserJet printers work properly using
the postscript drivers. However, HP 1055CM Color Plotter works best with
the HPGL/2 drivers if the drivers are installed on the client
workstation but, do not work using the "Point and Click" method.

I've used rpcclient to verify that the drivers are installed properly
and compared the server configuration with workstation configuration.
There is no difference in the configuration reported by rpcclient.

The only error message that I've seen is in the /var/log/cups/error_log
when a print job starts is "W [21/Sep/2004:12:53:12 -0400] [Job 320]
ignoring illegal PE char '9'...". This is repeated about 20 times.
Any
ideas?

Marcus O.

Hi Marcus,

Is Your printqueue "raw"? You have to create one for Yoour Printer. I
choosed swat to do that.
Than You have to edit two files to allow unknown type of data to be
printed via cups.

I found this in the mailing list archive

    1.      Edit /etc/cups/mime.types to uncomment the line near the end
of the
file that has:
#application/octet-stream


    2.      Do the same for the file /etc/cups/mime.convs.


    3.      Add a raw printer using the Web interface. Point your
browser at
http://localhost:631. Enter Administration, add the printer following the
prompts. Do not install any drivers for it. Choose Raw. Choose queue
name Raw


It worked perfect for our HP 450C HPGL plotter.

Olaf

Yes... All of these steps were performed. Before loading the drivers.
Were the drivers for your plotter loaded directly on the Windows
Workstation?

Marcus O.


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 08:33, Olaf Eichhorn wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
> 
> Is Your printqueue "raw"? You have to create one for Yoour
Printer. I
> choosed swat to do that.
> Than You have to edit two files to allow unknown type of data to be
> printed via cups.
> 
> I found this in the mailing list archive
> 
>     1.      Edit /etc/cups/mime.types to uncomment the line near the end
> of the
> file that has:
> #application/octet-stream
> 
> 
>     2.      Do the same for the file /etc/cups/mime.convs.
> 
> 
>     3.      Add a raw printer using the Web interface. Point your
> browser at
> http://localhost:631. Enter Administration, add the printer following the
> prompts. Do not install any drivers for it. Choose Raw. Choose queue
> name Raw
> 
> 
> It worked perfect for our HP 450C HPGL plotter.
> 
> Olaf

Hi Marcus,
> Were the drivers for your plotter loaded directly on the Windows
> Workstation?
Yes, all printer drivers are installed locally on the win-clients. They 
print to an redirected lpt-port. (lpt2) This works perfect for our small 
organization.
e.g. The sambaqueue is \\sambaserver\HP450C
I use an script to redirect the lpt2 to the path above.

net use lpt2: \\sambaserver\HP450C /persistent:yes

You have to run the script only one time.

hope this helps

Olaf