Hi there, Some days ago I've sent a mail talking about some problems printing from a Windows machine to a printer installed on a Linux server (running CUPS 1.1.19 and SAMBA 2.2.7) What was happening is when I send a page to be printed, I way 15/20 secs per page. I've installed the network printer with the correct HP drivers. After trying a LOT of stuff, I've installed the PostScript Printer Driver from ADOBE and it just works GREAT. When I print the page it's immediate. Problem is that it don't print collors. To make things tricker, it prints collors on the "test page". I'm confused in understanding why when using the HP drivers the print process takes a lot of time and when using the adobe postscript ones, it's immediate. Then, I wouldn't care if I needed to use the adobe drivers but I need the colors :) Any help? -- Miguel Manso <mmanso@amplitudenet.pt>
Hi there, The ones I've installed on my windows machine are in: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=pdrv&platform=win Printing works fine and I don't have the 15/20 seconds delay I get with the HP drivers (installed on the windows machine with the smb printer on linux + cups). My problem is in the fact that with that postscript driver from Adobe, I can't print colors. If you guys find the solution, I'd appreciate some help. Bye, -- Miguel Manso <mmanso@amplitudenet.pt> Quoting Benilton de Sa Carvalho <carvalho@ime.unicamp.br>:> Dear Miguel, > > how can I install this ADOBE driver? and where can I find it? I have the > same problem as you had. > > Regards, > > -- > Benilton Carvalho > DE / IMECC / UNICAMP > Red Hat Linux i18n Team > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Miguel Manso wrote: > > >Hi there, > > > >Some days ago I've sent a mail talking about some problems printing from a > >Windows machine to a printer installed on a Linux server (running CUPS > 1.1.19 > >and SAMBA 2.2.7) > > > >What was happening is when I send a page to be printed, I way 15/20 secs per > page. > > > >I've installed the network printer with the correct HP drivers. > > > >After trying a LOT of stuff, I've installed the PostScript Printer Driver > from > >ADOBE and it just works GREAT. When I print the page it's immediate. Problem > is > >that it don't print collors. To make things tricker, it prints collors on > the > >"test page". > > > >I'm confused in understanding why when using the HP drivers the print > process > >takes a lot of time and when using the adobe postscript ones, it's > immediate. > >Then, I wouldn't care if I needed to use the adobe drivers but I need the > colors :) > > > >Any help? > > > >-- > >Miguel Manso <mmanso@amplitudenet.pt> > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > >
I am not really sure of your set up. I assume you have installed the drivers on the windows client. And, I assume you send the job to a raw queue on the linux box. If not, maybe your linux filter is removing colors. I would look at the driver configuration on the windows client and make sure you don't have some option checked for B&W only. You might print the job to a file, send it over to the linux box, and open it with gv, and see if you have color. Sometimes, depending on your setup, the test page goes to a different queue than the real print jobs. Joel
Miguel Manso mmanso at amplitudenet.pt> Wed Jun 18 19:25:50 GMT 2003 > > > Hi there, > > The ones I've installed on my windows machine are in: > > http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=pdrv&platform=win > > Printing works fine and I don't have the 15/20 seconds delay I get with the HP > drivers (installed on the windows machine with the smb printer on linux + cups). > > My problem is in the fact that with that postscript driver from Adobe, I can't > print colors.[You don't say which version of Windows you're using...] A PostScript driver on Window always uses a "PPD" (PostScript Printer Description) file with it. It is normally in %WINDOWS%\system32\spool\driver\W32x86\2\ (or ...\3\) Check which one is used for your printer. See what the line says if you grep for the "^*ColorDevice" keyword. If you find a "*ColorDevice: True", then there should be an additional "*ColorModel" line somewhere. If you find a "*ColorDevice: False", you can't print color with it. Change the PPD (== reinstall the driver). Also, you can toggle between Color and Black/White from within the Windows driver. If you check B/W here, your client doesn't sent color and your printer will print B/W only....> If you guys find the solution, I'd appreciate some help. > > Bye, > > -- > Miguel Manso <mmanso at amplitudenet.pt>Cheers, Kurt