Marcus White
2004-Sep-23 09:32 UTC
[Samba] 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.
Olaf Eichhorn
2004-Sep-23 12:33 UTC
[Samba] Cannot get HP1055CM Color Plotter to work with "Point and Click"
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 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
Marcus White
2004-Sep-29 09:33 UTC
[Samba] Cannot get HP1055CM Color Plotter to work with "Point and Click"
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 > 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
Olaf Eichhorn
2004-Sep-29 10:36 UTC
[Samba] Cannot get HP1055CM Color Plotter to work with "Point and Click"
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