CUPS: PostScript vs. PCL3 vs PCL6
Tim
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Wed Jun 23 11:02:05 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 23:46 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote:
> To sum up:
>
> RHEL Server: CUPS(PS) --> CP4025
>
> Windows: driver(PCL6) --> Samba --> CUPS --> CP4025
>
> Fedora{12,13}: driver(PCL3) --> IPP --> CUPS --> CP4025
>
> On initial testing, it all seems to work. What nags at me, though,
> are the 3 different methods of page description. Am I wrong to think
> that mixing PostScript, PCL3 and PCL6 is a problem waiting to happen?
You should be able to just send PostScript to your print server, and not
need drivers for specific printers on the clients.
Sending locally pre-rendered data can be a problem, because you don't
want the server to try re-rendering.
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