Re: [Omniprint-user] Omni and CUPS communication

[Andrew A. <and...@ho...>]

Hello All.

Again thanks for the reply Grottfried, I further investigated based on what 
you said and
I've come up with the following results. What I did was to compare a CUPS 
native driver
(EPSON 24-Pin Series CUPS v1.1) and an Omni driver(Epson 24-pin 80 Col, CUPS 
+ omni).

Here are the results:
1. CUPS Web Interface(Media Size= Legal, then <Print Test Page>)
   EPSON 24-pin Series CUPS v1.1    Result : OK, Printed on Legal Paper
   Epson 24-pin 80 Col, CUPS + omni Result : NG, Printed on Letter Paper
2. lpr command
   EPSON 24-pin Series CUPS v1.1
      command used: lpr -P EpsCups -o PageSize=Legal testprint.ps
      Result: OK, Printed on Legal Paper
   Epson 24-pin 80 Col, CUPS + omni
      command used: lpr -P EpsOmni -o PageSize=DF01_144 testprint.ps
      Result: NG, Printed on Letter Paper
3. Mozilla 1.2.1
   EPSON 24-pin Series CUPS v1.1    Result : OK, works perfectly
   Epson 24-pin 80 Col, CUPS + omni Result : OK, works perfectly
4. OpenOffice Draw V1.1.0
   EPSON 24-pin Series CUPS v1.1    Result : OK, works perfectly
   Epson 24-pin 80 Col, CUPS + omni Result : OK, works perfectly

As seen above, there seems to be no problem with other applications, with 
Mozilla, I used only the
"postscript/default" as the printer(i can only see this printer). Likewise, 
with OpenOffice Draw,
it works perfectly. But as seen in results 1&2, there seems to be a problem 
with the CUPS interface,
I can't say its a CUPS problem since it works fine with their Native driver. 
I'm also not sure if
it is by design(Omni design). Based on the Debug spews, Legal's dimensions 
(612x1008) are being sent,
but it seems that it is not used---in the sense that the PageSize is not 
updated.I hope you guys could
again shed some light on this matter, maybe some of you also encontered 
this?



again thanks in advance
Andrew




>From: Gottfried Scheckenbach <got...@xt...>
>Reply-To: got...@xt...
>To: Andrew Aguas <and...@ho...>,  
>omn...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Omniprint-user] Omni and CUPS communication
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:57:47 +0200
>
>Have a look at this line:
>>D [31/Mar/2004:13:16:28 +0900] [Job 2] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
>"%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792" comes out of your postscript file and seems to 
>overwrite the cups A5 printer configuration - look at "Form" in call of 
>CUPSToOmni:
>
> > I [31/Mar/2004:13:16:31 +0900] [Job 2] CUPSToOmni: The job properties
> > are "Copies=1 Form=na_letter_8.50x11.00in InputTray=Rear NumberUp=1X1
> > NumberUpPresentationDirection=TobottomToright OutputBin=Bottom
> > Resolution=180x180 Rotation=Portrait ScalingPercentage=100
> > ScalingType=FitToPage Sides=OneSidedFront StitchingAngle=0
> > StitchingCount=0 StitchingPosition=0 StitchingReferenceEdge=Bottom
> > StitchingType=Corner Trimming=None XMLMasterFile="/usr/share/Omni/Epson
> > 24-pin 80 Col.xml" bidirectional=true dither=DITHER_STUCKI_DIFFUSION
> > media=MEDIA_PLAIN printmode=PRINT_MODE_1_ANY resolution=DRE1_180_180"
>
>Try the following: take some applications which can produce postscript 
>(mozilla, acroread...). Have a look into the printersettings and change the 
>paper format to A5 if possible. Print into file and look for "Boundigbox" 
>(grep Boundingbox file). If there is no entry or the entry
>>%%BoundingBox: 0 0 420 539
>print this file via lpr -P printer. Now it must be printed as A5. You 
>should see the differences in the log.
>
>After this check out google news and/or cups devel list for similar 
>reportings and existing fixes. Cups 1.1.20 is the actual version thus it is 
>probable you will find no meaningful hints and you have to send the problem 
>in short to the cups developers to let them check out if "%%BoundingBox: 
>..." has to overwrite the printer settings.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Regards,
>Gottfried
>
>
><< smime.p7s >>

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