Re: Double sided postscript printing

Hi Matt

Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:49:04 GMT, Peter Brown wrote:

:>Hi Mat
:>
:>Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:
:>> Hi,
:>> :>> I wanted to produce print output as postscript file for double sided
:>> printing. I've installed a new 'printer' for this, and tried various
:>> postscript drivers, until I found one which gave me double sided printing
:>> (Xerox Phaser 8400DP). Looking at the driver's job properties, all is well,
:>> but from within an application, if I select that printer and want to modify
:>> job properties to select double sided, I cannot: the driver shown is the
:>> Canon i850 (used also on the system).
:>> I don't understand why an application will show properties of another driver,
:>> not the one associated with the printer.
:>> :>> What is wrong here and how can I fix it?
:>> :>> Thanks, Mat Nieuwenhoven
:>>


A further thought here is that the app in use may have decided that the Default System printer is the correct driver - is the i850 the Default? - regardless of printer selected. What app is involved?

At 1 point in time Mozilla (suite) used to confuse which printer used which driver.

I had 2 printer objects 1 * Canon iP4000 using the i850 driver and 1 * i950 for OO using the i950 driver. The iP4000 was the Default printer and Mozilla used to successfully understand that bit but then insist the driver in use was the i950.


:>
:>My guess is your ini files have got a bit "munged" with regard to which :>printer uses what driver.
:>
:>If you open the Phaser printer properties, Printer driver tab, there is :>a chance you will see that it has more than 1 driver selected in the :>Default driver window.

No, there's just one.

:>Sometimes resetting that to just the correct driver helps - but could :>also change whatever uses the i850 driver to use the Phaser driver.
:>
:>Have a look at the printers and drivers installed using prndrv.exe -l :>that should give you an idea if there are still unused drivers hanging :>around causing problems.

I have that program already, thanks. Here's the output:

Found PrintQueue 'OMNI1' PMPRINT
Found PrintQueue 'CUPSPost' PMPRINT
Found Printer 'CUPSPos1' FILE PSCRIPT.Xerox Phaser 8400DP
Found Printer 'Canonip4' SLPR1 OMNI.Canon i950
Found PrinterDriver 'PSCRIPT.Xerox Phaser 8400DP'
'D:\OS2\DLL\PSCRIPT\PSCRIPT.DRV'
Found PrinterDriver 'OMNI.Canon i850'
'D:\OS2\DLL\OMNI\OMNI.DRV'
Found PrinterDriver 'OMNI.Canon i950'
'D:\OS2\DLL\OMNI\OMNI.DRV'
Found PrinterDriver 'IBMNULL'
'D:\OS2\DLL\IBMNULL\IBMNULL.DRV'



Nothing obviously wrong with the above to my eyes...


As a way around this, would it be possible to import Cups' PPD file for the
Canon IP4000 into the Pscript driver?

Thanks, Mat Nieuwenhoven




Yes, it is possible to import Cups' PPD file for the Canon IP4000 into the Pscript driver - but that alone would not make a PS printer of the iP4000.

Having successfully imported the ppd file you would need to create a printer object for the printer with the output port set to eCUPS which would then pass the print job onto the installed CUPS port and finally to the printer.

Yes, it all works - but only for some apps; and then only Page1 of a document gets printed. Hopefully the next release will see some improvements in the CUPS port to make it more usable.

Why is CUPS needed? - the answer is simply that the iP4000 is not a PS printer and to make it behave like 1 requires various filters as well as a ppd file.

Regards

Pete


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