Hi all!
Are you sure that this solution will work with all applications?
I have already experimented this problem but I have not found a solution for
the following reason:
If you want to print 2 copies, some applications (e.g. Microsoft Word) set
the copies number to 2 in the ps-file and put twice the document in the
ps-file (so it's printed four times if you print twice the ps-file) but
other applications set the copies number to 2 in the ps-file and put once
the document in the ps-file (so it's printed twice if you print twice the
ps-file).
So I can not see a solution working for all applications.
I hope that I am wrong...
Best regards,
Milisen Thierry
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Viklund [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: jeudi 23 mars 2006 13:19
To: email@hidden
Subject: Multiple copies to remote linux server solved.
(ppc/tiger/10.4.5)
Hello!
I have had a problem for a while when printing through OSX's cupsd via IPP
to a linux cups-server (that is serving a whole campus).
When i wanted to print 1 copy all was fine, but when printing 2 i got 4 and
3 i got 9 copies.. I found out that what is causing the problem is that
the ps-file
that gets sent to the remote cups-server has an embedded copies-number and
gets sent as many times as the amount of copies that you wanted.. therefor
i got a factor two of what i wanted :/..
As most of cups on the mac is opensource, i got hold of the source for the
ipp-backend to cups and modified it a bit. Posting the diff to anyone
that is interested
and also a link to somewhere that you can (hopefully still) get the
binary from (already patched and built that is)..
ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/macosx/ipp (and it should go into the folder
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/)
This is how i configure my printers locally (but send all jobs through
the remote cups-server,
raw means that the output should go through without processing extra
ppd/filter processing)...
ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/macosx/printdialog.png
And this is how the patch looks like..
#########################################################################
--- ipp_original.c 2006-03-21 17:05:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ipp_new.c 2006-03-21 16:59:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@
if (copies_sup || argc < 7)
copies = 1;
else
- copies = atoi(argv[4]);
+ copies = 1;
/*
* Figure out the character set to use...
@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@
cupsEncodeOptions(request, num_options, options);
ippAddInteger(request, IPP_TAG_JOB, IPP_TAG_INTEGER, "copies",
- atoi(argv[4]));
+ 1);
}
cupsFreeOptions(num_options, options);
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@
if (ipp_status <= IPP_OK_CONFLICT && argc > 6)
{
- fprintf(stderr, "PAGE: 1 %d\n", copies_sup ? atoi(argv[4]) : 1);
+ fprintf(stderr, "PAGE: 1 %d\n", copies_sup ? 1 : 1);
copies --;
}
else if (ipp_status != IPP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE &&
#########################################################################
Hope this is to some help for somebody!
Best regards,
Martin Viklund (Sysadmin at Stockholm University)
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