Re: [netatalk-admins] Problems with papd providing ppd info to the mac

Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Problems with papd providing ppd info to the mac
From: Eddie Irvine (eirvine@tpgi.com.au)
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 19:50:53 EDT

Hi,

Did you use the Mac software that came with your HP4000 to *make* the
ppd?

Alvise Nobile wrote:
>
> I have netatalk on Linux, to act as a print-server for some macs.
> The mac's are supposed to see the printers as generic laserwriters, and
> get some details about them from the ppd provided by the server.
> It does not seem to work. Has anyone seen something like that and knows a
> workaround?. Here is my bug report:
>
> ============================================================
> Subject:
> ============================================================
> Faulty communication of PPD contents from papd to MAC
>
> ============================================================
> Environment:
> ============================================================
>
> netatalk 1.4b2 on both Linux Red Hat 5.1 and 6.0
>
> netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4 as distributed from RedHat contrib
> archive
>
> Linux kernel 2.2.5-15 (For RedHat 6.0 : Plain RedHat 6.0)
> Linux kernel 2.0.34 (For Redhat 5.1)
>
> Mac GS/3 with MacOS 8.5.1
>
> Printers:
> HP 4000N (ppd from HP)
> HP 2000C (Windows PPD from HP)
> Epson StylosPro 8500 (with Birmy PowerRip Postscript stuff)
> ============================================================
> Description:
> ============================================================
> All the printers are controlled by a Linux box.
> I want the Linux box to inform the Mac's about
> the characteristics of the printer (colour;
> double-sided; Postscript level; memory). (I realize
> Double-sided is not supported, by now...)
> papd configured to advertize them to Mac clients: papd configuration file
> contains path of ppd files, ppd files downloaded from manufacturers.
> Printers are visible to the chooser, with their UNIX names, as configured
> in papd.
> One clicks 'setup' from the chooser, and then 'Autosetup'
> and then one arrives to the 'ppd selection' window. Selecting 'Generic'
> apparently everything goes well. >>>>BUT then, looking at the Printer Info,
> one gets:
> 1) For the Epson, Product name, Postscript Version and Postscript Revision ,
> and Color Supported are right; Postscript Level is wrong (1 instead of 2),
> all the other parameters are empty(while resolution and memory should be not)
> 2) For the HP printers, more or less all the parameters are nonsense
> (Product Name is 22000000, which in the ppd is *FreeVM; some other numbers
> like resolution etc are non recognizable)
>
> The PPD for HP 4000 are the ones HP distributes the MAC.
> There are no recognizable difference
> in style between PPD's for Epson and HP.
> Using the Epson ppd file with values changed to reflect HP values works
> to the same extent as the Epson (Product OK, colour OK, not the rest)
> ================================================================
> Repeat-By
> ================================================================
> Any attempt to configure the printer as advertized by papd from the chooser
>
> Alvise Nobile, Scientific Computing Section
> The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
> Address: str. Costiera 11, I-34100 Trieste, Italy
> Tel: +39-040-2240-391 Fax: +39-040-224163/224559 

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Eddie

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