[ale] Samba shared printer mystery

[PairOfTwins]

Jim (and Michael):

Good thinking!  I see a driver in the Generic section called "Raw 
queue".  I'll try that along with the samba setting and see if it tames 
the beast.  Guess that would mean making that Raw driver the shared 
printer, and creating another printer object with normal driver for the 
workstation to use directly.

Thanks,
Tom

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Isn't there a "RAW" print driver for samba printers that will simple 
> use the data "as is" from the windows client and simply block-send teh 
> data to the printer? The Linux system can't print to the printer at 
> all, but the windows systems think it's a windows printer with no problem.
>
> not sure. haven't tinkered samba in a long time....
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM, PairOfTwins 
> <PairOfTwins at mindspring.com <mailto:PairOfTwins at mindspring.com>> wrote:
>
>     All:
>
>     I've set up samba on a recent Ubuntu/Mint system to share the HP
>     DeskJet
>     F4180, which works fine from the desktop with any of 3 printer
>     drivers.
>
>     However, printing a web page to this shared printer from WinXP prints
>     only PART of the content.  First try with f4100 driver it printed
>     color,
>     with no black at all.  Switching to another similar driver or f4200
>     driver produced the same result.  Printing a check, all that prints is
>     the signature (an image), with all the text missing.
>
>     Looking at the access log, I see dozens of messages ending with
>     "successful - ok", and the error log only shows some "authorization"
>     problems, which I think were caused by replacing the driver as the
>     user.  My last driver change was done using "sudo" and no message
>     appeared, but the printing was just as bad.  Was unable to find a
>     place
>     to change the error level in /etc/cups.
>
>     WinXP is using the official HP driver, and printing via USB cable
>     works
>     just fine.  The cups driver is hplip 2.8.7 and foomatic.  OpenPrinting
>     says this printer "works mostly" and uses "Lightweight Imaging Device
>     Interface Language" - LIDIL.
>
>     Any suggestion is welcomed.
>
>     Tom
>
>
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