samba - Apr 2010 - Point'n'print support of various printer drivers

Hi list,

I've got a generic question about Point'n'print.

We're using Point'n'print with different versions of samba (3.3.x,
3.4.x,
3.5.x) and in most cases it works really well. However, there are some 
printer drivers with which we just cannot get printing to work properly: in 
these cases not all driver features (like color, duplex or multiple copies) 
are available.

I was wondering if this is a known inherent problem with some printer 
drivers, or if this is caused by samba not supporting specific methods or 
other requirements that these drivers would have.

The reason I'm asking is that I would like to know whether or not it's 
useful filing bugs for these issues. I already have test setups and I'm 
willing and able to spend time helping debug these issues, but if this is 
one of those things that'll just never work it's not really useful
bothering
anyone with it.

Examples of drivers that we can't get to work properly are the Brother 
HL4040-CN and various drivers from HP (the bundled Windows drivers for HP 
printers usually work fine.)

Thanks for any thoughts,

roel

Roel van Meer wrote:
> We're using Point'n'print with different versions of samba
(3.3.x,
> 3.4.x, 3.5.x) and in most cases it works really well. However, there 
> are some printer drivers with which we just cannot get printing to 
> work properly: in these cases not all driver features (like color, 
> duplex or multiple copies) are available.
>
> I was wondering if this is a known inherent problem with some printer 
> drivers, or if this is caused by samba not supporting specific methods 
> or other requirements that these drivers would have.
>
> The reason I'm asking is that I would like to know whether or not
it's
> useful filing bugs for these issues. I already have test setups and 
> I'm willing and able to spend time helping debug these issues, but if 
> this is one of those things that'll just never work it's not really
> useful bothering anyone with it.
>
> Examples of drivers that we can't get to work properly are the Brother 
> HL4040-CN and various drivers from HP (the bundled Windows drivers for 
> HP printers usually work fine.)
Great question +1.  All our lexmark drivers work like a charm.

Xerox drivers are a PITA.  I'm referring to vendor specific drivers, 
since Windows does not have a bundle for the newest Xerox models we 
have.  I was also considering filing bug reports for these.