samba - Apr 2002 - Canon ImageRUNNER 600, Samba and LPRng

Hi everyone,

A few days ago, on the LPRng mailing list, I posted a weird problem with 
our Canon ImageRUNNER 600 and LPRng... turns out it's not a problem with 
LPRng... rather, it's an issue with a slightly-misleading option for Samba 
printers, and a bug with Canon's PCL processor.

In Samba, you have the option to say "Postscript = Yes", which
doesn't mean
"This is a postscript printer" but rather "this printer takes
postscript
all the time, so please add "%!" to the beginning of all jobs to
it!"  HP
Printers are smart enough to see the PCL code in the job and go "Oh 
gee--this isn't really postscript... we'll just process it with 
PCL..."  The Canon goes "Oh--oops--here's a %!.. must be plaintext
cuz
there's an Escape and some PCL.. I'll just print the "%!" and
a pagefeed"

So mystery solved... hopefully this will help others out there with the 
Canon ImageRUNNER class copiers--and Samba guys--can you change that option 
to say "Force Postscript"? *duck&run* :))))))

Thanks everyone! And thanks to Patrick Powell for the phone call today 
which put us on the right track to find the issue! :) I'm more than 
grateful for all the help and suggestions I get off of these two lists! 
Y'all rock! :)

Sincerely,
Glenn

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Glenn E. Sieb, System Administrator
Lumeta Corp. mailto:ges@lumeta.com
+1 732 357-3514 (V)
+1 732 564-0731 (Fax)

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> A few days ago, on the LPRng mailing list, I posted a weird problem with 
> our Canon ImageRUNNER 600 and LPRng... turns out it's not a problem
with
> LPRng... rather, it's an issue with a slightly-misleading option for
Samba
> printers, and a bug with Canon's PCL processor.
> 
> In Samba, you have the option to say "Postscript = Yes", which
doesn't mean
> "This is a postscript printer" but rather "this printer
takes postscript
> all the time, so please add "%!" to the beginning of all jobs to
it!"  HP
> Printers are smart enough to see the PCL code in the job and go "Oh 
> gee--this isn't really postscript... we'll just process it with 
> PCL..."  The Canon goes "Oh--oops--here's a %!.. must be
plaintext cuz
> there's an Escape and some PCL.. I'll just print the "%!"
and a pagefeed"
> 
> So mystery solved... hopefully this will help others out there with the 
> Canon ImageRUNNER class copiers--and Samba guys--can you change that option
> to say "Force Postscript"? *duck&run* :))))))
To be honest, I don't know why this parameter is even still around.
:-) :-)  Maybe just to confuse people.  I'll look into it.











cheers, jerry
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