RE: PS files not recognised when printed from a mac

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 05-Jan-02 Andrew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed apsfilter 7.1.1 under FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE.
> Everything
> seems to work fine when printing locally but if I submit a job from
> my mac
> the printer prints the postscript source, not the actual image.

I can think of two reasons for this error:

1) When printing requests arrive via the network, your local lpd
(on the BSD machine) does not invoke the corresponding filter,
but rather directs the data directly to the interface, because it
erroneously assumes the data to be "ready-to-print".
You may want to try LPRng if this is the case.

2) The spooler on the Mac transfers the data unmodified (which
is what you want), but passes a flag to the remote spooler that
causes it to be printed in "raw" mode. I have no idea how OS X
handles printing, or if it is possible to change that behaviour.

The last resort would be to install a driver on the Mac side
and transfer the printer data across the network (which would
be a serious waste of bandwidth, and you'd bypass that great
package known to you as "apsfilter"...).


HTH
Michael