Re: [Netatalk-admins] printing issues

[Thomas K. <Tho...@ph...>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:25:21 MET, "Mikkel C. Simonsen" wrote:

> Thomas Kaiser wrote:
>> AFAIR I never had problems getting papd to work.
>=20
> It works fine here with ASCII printjobs - of which there are very few...

I meant binary jobs (Xpress, InDesign and so on) as I'm having a prepress
background, too.

> [...] If I print the job to file, and send it to the same printer with PS=
Tool
> it fails.=20

But not, if you print directly to the 'old LaserWriter', I assume...

> [...] But papd jobs never get through to the spooler...

Do others have the same problems with binary data and papd?
=20
> [...]
> I read in a man page or howto somewhere (don't remember where) that papd
> didn't work probably with binary data, so I just thought it was a known
> problem, and it would be addressed at some point.

I know of two problems, both AFAIK not related to the problem of binary dat=
a
and papd itself:

- 'man papd' states:

       CAVEATS
       papd  accepts  characters  with  the  high bit set (a full
       8-bits) from the clients,  but  some  PostScript  printers
       (including   Apple  Computer's  LaserWriter  family)  only
       accept 7-bit  characters  on  their  serial  interface  by
       default.   You  will  need  to  configure  your printer to
       accept a full 8 bits.

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> [...] Ich wohne nur 70km von Deutschland entfernt... (i hope that didn't
> contain too many errors).

Perfect :-)

Just tried it one more time with a binary print job (out of Quark) and papd
(from 1.5.2 and 1.4b2+asun...):

      00010168: 25 42 65 67 69 6E 42 69     %BeginBi
      00010170: 6E 61 72 79 3A 20 20 20     nary:
      00010178: 20 32 30 39 32 37 34 33      2092743
      00010180: 0D 62 65 67 69 6E 69 6D     .beginim
      00010188: 61 67 65 0D 00 00 00 1A     age.....
      00010190: 00 00 00 0A 1F 00 05 00     ........

      000BF610: C9 56 F1 8A 63 80 B2 87     =8AV=D2=E4c=C4=BE=E1
      000BF618: BA 7F 93 89 7A 71 96 5F     =86=EC=E2zq=F1_
      000BF620: 8B 5C 6C 5A 4C 91 B9 8C     =E3\lZL=EB=BC=E5
      000BF628: 84 C1 A8 BB B3 C6 79 83     =D1=A1=AE=AA=84=90y=C9
      000BF630: 67 B6 8B 75 98 72 4A AC     g=8F=E3u=F2rJ=A8
      000BF638: 54 CE 95 47 9A C1 AF 9A     T=91=EFG=F6=A1=D8=F6

No problems with this job...

Regards,

Thomas