Hi,

I wanted to produce print output as postscript file for double sided
printing. I've installed a new 'printer' for this, and tried various
postscript drivers, until I found one which gave me double sided printing
(Xerox Phaser 8400DP). Looking at the driver's job properties, all is well,
but from within an application, if I select that printer and want to modify
job properties to select double sided, I cannot: the driver shown is the
Canon i850 (used also on the system).
I don't understand why an application will show properties of another driver,
not the one associated with the printer.

What is wrong here and how can I fix it?

Thanks, Mat Nieuwenhoven

Hi Mat

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:49:04 GMT, Peter Brown wrote:

:>Hi Mat
:>
:>Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:
:>> Hi,
:>>
:>> I wanted to produce print output as postscript file for double sided
:>> printing. I've installed a new 'printer' for this, and tried various
:>>...

Hi Matt

Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:29:00 GMT, Peter Brown wrote:

Hi Peter,



:>A further thought here is that the app in use may have decided that the
:>Default System printer is the correct driver - is the i850 the Default?
:>- regardless of printer selected. What app is involved?

I tried several, all the same, like Acrobat reader, OO, PmView.

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:29:00 GMT, Peter Brown wrote:
Hi Peter,

:>> As a way around this, would it be possible to import Cups' PPD file for the
:>> Canon IP4000 into the Pscript driver?
:>>
:>> Thanks, Mat Nieuwenhoven
:>
:>Yes, it is possible to import Cups' PPD file for the Canon IP4000 into
:>the Pscript driver - but that alone would not make a PS printer of the
:>iP4000.

I've now taken the Foomatic PPD file for the IP4000, changed it to replace
UTF-8 to isolatin1, and the 0xD7 characters to lowercase x. I added the EAs
to the eCS pscript version 30.827 with "EAUTIL out\pscript.drv out\pscript.ea
/O /J ", then ran "pin ppd ppd out\pscript.drv" using the pin.exe from Paul's
gccpin.exe (modified by Bart van Leeuwen apparently).
After installing the printer I now have a Canon IP4000 with more options,
like duplex, but also some weird ones, like the first available tray is a
series of numbers. I presume this is because the PPD file still needs
weaking.

Hi Mat

Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:16:18 GMT, Peter Brown wrote:
Hi Pete



:>
:>I seem to recall the answer was to delete all lines in the ppd file that
:>start with "*StpStp" so the 1st few lines of the above became:-

Yes, I've done that as well as test. However, unrelated to that, I have
currently problems using the newly created pscript.drv , the 'install local
printer' hangs, and according to "prndrv -l" generates 2 queues instead of
one. I'll revert to manual copying the pscript.drv file next to
\os2\dll\pscript. I'm not sure if the generated "auxprint.pak" file should be
copied too.

:>I also had problems with pscript.drv build 30.827 and reverted to 30.822
:>which did not have the same problem: Having successfully created a new
:>printer driver and added it to the pscript driver it was difficult to
:>Create a Printer object to use the new driver and when created it would
:>not work; did not have any Properties in some attempts.