Postscript printing on a HP printer

I am trying to print a billing document via sapscript
on a HP 4100N Laser Jet. Whrn I use a PS printer
driver, I get output to spool where the TemSe
attributes show data type = OTFPOST. The SP01 list
show the output as complete, without errors. However,
no output is physically printed.
Hi there,
If I change the printer driver to a PCL driver, I get
output to spool where the TemSe attributes show data
type = OTFHPL2. The SP01 list show the output as
complete, without errors. The output is physically
printed O.K. Is it possible to output OTFPOST type via
the HP 4100N? The documentation suggests that it is
and the printer should automatically cope with both
data types. Does anyone have any ideas please? If the HP printer is set with a PCL device type, the layout set prints two characters to the right and in some cases, the last two characters are dropped. I do not really want to have to physically change the printable area of the layout set. According to the HP documentation, it should be possible to emulate PS from the HP printer but I cannot figure out how. i have also tied changing the X and Y co-ordinates of the printer but no success.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Kenny

eab987,
Your Officejet 6500A series will be getting an firmware update in December that supports AirPrint. In the meantime, you can check out my [FAQ|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2658560&tstart=0] thread or many other posts on this forum for how to get things working.
Just trying to help.
Andrew

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I (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) Completed successfully.
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I [10/Dec/2007:20:23:35 -0500] [Job 11] Adding start banner page "none".
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I've discovered that one can access some sort of printer admin program using 127.0.0.1:631/printers. This is a 'CUPS' interface (I have no idea what CUPS is).
CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) is the printing system used in Mac OS X. It runs its own server which can be accessed on your localhost at <http://127.0.0.1:631>. Apple has made additions to the CUPS software as distributed by cups.org, so the web interface does not provide access to all the extras Apple has added.
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The HP drivers that I downloaded from the HP website for this printer are apparently only good for directly connected or print server-based PSC series printers - NOT for printers available as shared from an XP computer.
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At present there is not a specific PPD for the HP PSC 1315 in either package. That is most likely why the Generic PostScript PPD was assigned. The OS tries to match the manufacturer and printer model that the printer relays to the OS with a PPD that is exactly the same. When this fails, the system falls back to whatever default is specified in the software.
Does that mean that the PSC will absolutely not work? No. HP shows that the PSC 1315 is part of the 1300 series. A 1300 series PPD does exist within the hpijs driver set. It will show in the list of printers as "HP PSC 1300 Foomatic/hpijs". You can manually select this as your PPD.
I removed the driver (HP) anyway and downloaded the HPIJS set.
This is good. Did you also remove any HP files from the /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins directory? Please do if you have not already done so. You will have to kill off a number of processes before you are fully rid of these plug-ins. Perhaps the easiest way is to just restart the computer after you trash the PPD Plugins. It is important to be sure these are disabled. Just having the HP supplied drivers installed will most likely "tie up" the printer and make it unavailable to any other driver set. The PSC is an all-in-one machine. The HP software ties up the continuously looking for the command to start scanning.
Windows already is sharing the printer. I'm trying to connect to it over my wifi network.
I think Apple just doesn't support the PSC1315 that way.
Apple, just like Windows, doesn't "support" any particular printer. Nor do they write the drivers for them. Greg is more of an expert at Windows printing from a Mac than most of us. He can correct me if I am wrong, but I think all the necessary elements should be available to make your combination work. Make sure you have gotten rid of all or disabled the HP supplied software and try manually selecting the "HP PSC 1300 Foomatic/hpijs" printer within the context of the Windows printer sharing article Greg cited.
Hope this helps.
Matt
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Printing problems using a print server

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HP6L (parallel)
URL: dnssd://PS-700AED-P3._printer.tcp.local.
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URL: dnssd://PS-700AED-U1._printer.tcp.local.
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PCL XL error
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Error: IllegalTag
Operator: Vendor Unique
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Your printer is a non-postscript printer and requires a CUPS driver in order to use the network printing protocols which are part of the CUPS system in OS X. Except for Brother, no manufacturer of non-postscript printers is providing CUPS drivers. The printer model doesn't show up because the OS X driver only works for USB. Apple tried to get around this by including open source Gimp-Print (CUPS) drivers with OS X. But very few HPs are supported. You should try HP Deskjet 900 Series, Gimp-Print driver to see if it "might" work.
For PPC Macs, there is another open source driver set that supports most HPs, including yours:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
But, these aren't Universal binaries, so they don't work on Intel Macs. The source code is available, and I think it will readily compile on your Mac, but I don't have an Intel Mac to try that on.
Next issue - print server setup. We don't have auto-setup software, so we have to read the manual closely and decide which protocol to use. If it's IPP (=internet printing protocol, not IP printing) or LPR/LPD, you need to find the print server's queue name (sometimes called port name), and enter that in Add printer dialog near IP address.
There are other ways to do network printing. The Airport Express print server from Apple allows you to use the USB driver because it uses Airport-Bonjour software to redirect USB output, instead of using standard protocols.
Hope this helps.

Can't print to a shared printer on 10.6.8 iMac from Windows 7 iMac

I am creating another discussion as I made some changes and hoping PAHU-san will be able to solve this problem. I am using a Mac OSX 10.6.8 iMac and Windows7 iMac. I installed the driver Canon LBP6750 UFRII on each machine and both can print. However, printing from Windows 7 iMac to a shared printer on the Mac OSX 10.6.8 does not print anything and has no errors.
Here are some logs. If you need additional information, please let me know.
JOB INFO
Completed smbprn.00000004 Microsoft Word - Document 1 3:43PM Today 3:43PM Name
CUPS > access_log
localhost - - [01/Feb/2012:15:43:33 +0900] "POST /printers/FLOOD_6750_UFR HTTP/1.1" 401 2003 Print-Job successful-ok
localhost - lino [01/Feb/2012:15:43:33 +0900] "POST /printers/FLOOD_6750_UFR HTTP/1.1" 200 2003 Print-Job successful-ok
CONSOLE MESSAGES
2/1/12 3:47:45 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[
200] (jp.co.canon.UFR2.BackGrounder[664]) posix_spawn("/Library/Printers/Canon/UFR2/Utilities/UFR II BackGrounder.app/Contents/MacOS/UFR II BackGrounder", ...): No such file or directory

PAHU, Thank you for looking into this. I have been working on this for a long time, and hoping that purchasing these two Canon printers are not a mistake. My iMac 10.6.8 is not directly connected to a printer by USB, but through protocol IPP (I have also tested with HP Jetdirect). I am doing this because I would like the iMac 10.6.8 to be a print server and have client machines (iMac 10.6.8 clients and iMac Windows 7) print through the print server. I have tried the following on the iMac 10.6.8 and have the following errors
1. Generic PostScript - prints out strange characters and prints forever
2. Generic PCL Laser -
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Connecting to 192.168.10.151:631
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Connecting to printer...
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Set job-printer-state-message to "Connecting to printer...", current level=INFO
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] STATE: -connecting-to-device
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Connected to printer...
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Set job-printer-state-message to "Connected to printer...", current level=INFO
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Connected to 192.168.10.151:631 (IPv4)...
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] prtMarkerSuppliesLevel.1.1 = 19
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] ATTR: marker-levels=19
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] new_supply_state=0, change_state=0
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] new_state=0, change_state=0
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Getting supported attributes...
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Set job-printer-state-message to "Destination printer does not exist!", current level=ERROR
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Backend returned status 4 (stop printer)
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] Printer stopped due to backend errors; please consult the error_log file for details.
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] End of messages
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] printer-state=5(stopped)
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] printer-state-message="Destination printer does not exist!"
D [02/Feb/2012:10:45:17 +0900] [Job 1] printer-state-reasons=paused
3. PS v3.40 driver does not work
4. Canon Mac PPD does not work either
Do you know of other work arounds?

Check Printing Differs based on Printer..

Hi All,
We have 3 differenct printers(HP Laser Jet) for check printing purpose.
Each printer is printing differently.
Please can you suggest how can we take care of this irrespective of printer series.
Thank you
Madhu

How are you sending the pdf file to the printer? Are you opening it then manually printing or sending via unix commands or windows commands?
We have had similar issues in windows when would open the file and use the print feature from Adobe Acrobat in Windows platform. Similarly when we used Acrobat 5 vs Acrobat 7 in unix, Acrobat 5 was shrinking the entire document everytime regardless of us using/not using the -shrink command(really weird). I am now able to send a check to HP4100 printer and Ricoh 4500 printer from Windows or Unix with no problem. If you are using Windows make sure you are using a postscript print driver and not pcl...for some reason they don't play well together.

Cannot print to Lexmark PS Printer, from MacOS 10.4.11 or Win XP SP3

Since upgrading to Reader 8.1.2, neither my MacOS 10.4.11 nor my Win XP SP3 system will print from Reader to my Lexmark Optra printer, installed on the network (using postscript drivers).
It appears that the print job is being sent to the printer -- it starts up and whirrs for some little while, but no paper emerges. The status window shows "Busy". This is normal behavior for this printer -- except that it usually prints something.
All other applications on both the Mac and the PC print ok. And I can print from the full version of Acrobat 5.x installed on the PC. The only application that won't print to the Lexmark Optra is Reader 8.x.
I can print to an HP C3180 Photosmart printer, plugged directly into the Mac's USB port.
What's up with this? Did Adobe end up corrupting the print output, so that it's unreadable by the printer?
Adobe people -- what have you done?

Mike,
I've never heard about resetting the printing system on the Mac -- when I opened the Print & FAX icon in System Preferences, I don't see anything about reset -- are you suggesting I delete the Lexmark printer and re-add it?
In regards to the installation of Acrobat 5.x and Reader 8.1.2 on the same WinXP system -- that's on a physically separate PC -- not emulation on the Mac. And I installed Reader 8.x in order to take advantage of some newer PDF documents that require something more recent that 5.x.
And ultimately, on both systems .... what's up with the inability to print to the Lexmark printer, when every other application prints successfully. And, by the way, there is also an HP C3100 printer attached to the Mac via a USB cable ... and Reader 8.1.2 prints to it.
The lexmark optra printer is connected directly to the network here, and all of the PCs and the Mac (only 1) can print to the networked printer without problems -- except for Reader 8.x.
If you're suggesting I reset printers because of a known issue, I'd appreciate hearing the whole story before I start uninstalling and reinstalling printers.
Thanks for your reply.
Jerry

Smartform - Printing Graphic store in Printer Harddisk via PCL

Dear Folks,
I have a logo stored as a Macro (prn file) in my HP Laser Jet 4350 printer's hard disk.
When printing any smart forms from that printer, the logo is suppose to be printed together from the printer harddisk. I am not to import the graphic into the smart form itself.
I read that there may be a need to write PCL commands in the Smartform to trigger the printing. Is this correct?
If so, can anybody direct me to useful references to learn how to do this?
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Junwen

Hi,
This is how it is handled
Hexadecimal Data: HEX, ENDHEX Use this command to send printer commands in a printer language directly to a printer that supports that language. SAPscript does not interpret the data enclosed by the HEX and ENDHEX command pair, but inserts it unchanged into the output stream. 
This technique allows objects with a pixel-oriented format (for example, graphics) to be printed as part of a SAPscript text. The HEX and ENDHEX command pair enclose the printer commands and data as hexadecimal text, so that the printer formatting routines interpret each successive pair of characters as a single hexadecimal value in the range of 0 to 255. The characters 0 to 9 and A to F for representing the values 10 to 15 are valid hexadecimal characters. The text may also include comment lines (these begin with /* in the format column), which will not be interpreted as hexadecimal data but are simply passed over by the formatting routines.
Syntax: /: HEX [TYPE printer_language] The HEX command denotes the start of the hexadecimal data. Subsequent text lines are interpreted as described above. If the TYPE parameter is present, the data will be sent to the printer only if the printer understands the specified printer language.
The following printer languages are currently supported: POST (Postscript), PRES (Kyocera Prescribe) and PCL (HP Printer Control Language). /: HEX [TYPE printer_language] [XPOS x_position] [YPOS y_position]
Here is the answer for your second question,
The output cursor is set to the absolute position indicated by the specified X and Y position parameters before the hexadecimal data is printed. If either the X or the Y position is not specified, then 0 will be assumed for this parameter. /: HEX [TYPE printer_language] [HEIGHT height] [LEFT left_indentation] The HEIGHT parameter determines the amount of space to be reserved on the page for the output of the hexadecimal data. Any text following the ENDHEX command will be printed below this point. If the LEFT parameter is also specified, then the output of the hexadecimal data will is indented from the left margin by the specified amount.
/: HEX TYPE PCL HEIGHT '7.5' CM LEFT '2.25' CM /* Creator: report ZQVNTE30 date 19940705 time 125129 user SAPSCRIPT /= 1B2A7230461B2A743735521B2A7231411B2A62304D1B2A62343057FFFFFFFFFFFF /= FF1B2A62343057FFFFFFFFFFFFC0007D00DFC0F7D0000000000000000000000017 /: ENDHEX This data is printed only by an HP PCL printer (fro example, HP LaserJet). 7.5 cm of space is allocated on the page for the output of the data and the output cursor is indented 2.25 cm to the right of the form window edge.
You said its useful, now this will solve your problem
Feel free to revert back.
--Ragu

Photoshop: Printing: via Mac from printer on Windows 7

Hi all,
First off - if you know a better place I should be posting this question, please inform.
I'm trying to print from Photoshop onto a printer connected via a windows computer. I've tried everything and am nearly at the point of paying somebody 40 bucks to just set it up for me. This is a pain since I have to interrupt the person working at the windows computer just to send an order to print.
Printer: Epson Stylus Pro 9600 Ultrachrome Ink
Connected to: Windows 7 Computer
Shared to: iMac 10.8.3
Set windows to workgroup
Made sure workgroup same name in Mac
Set all shared settings in Windows to everyone and allowed everyone to make all changes
Set printer sharing settings to everyone and allow to print/manage.
Tried connecting printer from Mac finder: Go > Connect to Server > smb://[IP address] AND smb://[user@computer]/users
Tried connecting printer from Print & Scan section of System Preferences: + > Windows > workgroup > jim-pc (computer name). It asks me for a name and password at this point. No name and password combination works. Tried "guest" "guest" and that seemed to work until I tried printing. Instead of completing the print job it states something like "Waiting for Authorization". I tried authorizing as "guest" "guest" but the print disappears from the queue.
Tried connecting from Print & Scan: + > Advanced > Type: LPD/LPR Host of Printer, Device: Another Device, URL: "Ipd://[IP Address]. Left name as IP address. Tried Generic PostScript Printer - didn't work. Tried Epson S9600 drive (updated it)- didn't work. Tried Generic PCL Printer and it actually printed a test page! It left the printer running like it was thinking, though. When I went to print from Photoshop it no longer worked and I couldn't print a test page. I tried the same thing with changing the name to no avail.
I'm completely at a loss. I've gone over all of the options I've found on other forums. I spent 6+ hours (yep) trying to figure this out on the weekend. If anyone has any ideas, helpful links and/or step-by-step guides I would be grateful. If you need more information or you're part of a site like crossloops and want that $40... I think I'm at that point now!
Thanks for reading,
Riley

You will need a print server software on your Windows machine. There is no way to print directly via a Windows share from Mac.
Mylenium

On Mac OS 10.5, can't print to Linux CUPS printing server

We attached a USB printer to a Linux server, which is CUPS1.3.8 installed.
The printer is Epson Stylus CX5900.
Printing from another Linux with CPUS is OK.
But I can NOT print from my MacOSX10.5 system.
I tried IPP, SMB, no success.
Visit the http://127.0.0.1:631 on Mac, the CUPS on Mac even can not discovery the printer shared by Linux server.
If I add added the printer as samba on MacOS, it will report
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Filter/rastertoescp.app/Contents/MacOS/ras tertoescp failed
I see many users report printing issues on MacOSX10.5 on the Internet.
What's the matter?
As I know, MacOSX10.4 can print to printer on Linux CUPS server.

Slow down a bit and think this through.
CUPS on linux is nearly identical to CUPS on OS X - but there is no Mac-to-Mac Apple proprietary print sharing. Rather, on linux you are sharing the printer using standard printing protocols. Just like on the Mac (when using the standard protocols like Windows/SMB or IP printing), linux print queues expect postscript input. Try using a generic postscript driver from the mac.
And when you add the printer via Windows Printing or IP > LPD or IPP, you will need to know the queue name for that printer from the linux box. (one computer with one IP address can have multiple printers - so what's the additional address info to print to your desired printer? - queue name.)
HTH

Print shop can't print color correctly.

Hi there,
I work at a print shop and occasionally run into problems with documents being difficult to print, but this one is especially troubling. Out print shop does not have Photoshop but rather "Photo Impact..." I know, don't get me started. The issue is that I have a particular customer how did some designing in Photoshop CS4 (CS something) and it looks beautiful on his macbook but different on our PC (no matter what program we use to open any of his files- TIFF, PNG, JPG, etc). When printing to our Xerox Docucolor 252 the color is real dark and way less vivid/bright.
I tried the file on my home computer (PC with CS4) and it again looks great. When I print it on my home printer (Canon ip6700d) the printed colors are much closer to the screen even though I get an error telling me the printer is a non-postscript printer and so it will ignore some of the document properties. This leads me to believe that since the Xerox is a postscript enabled (I think) printer it is using data I know nothing about to darken and dirty the image. This is way outside of my knowledge and I would love to figure this out.
We have tried converting the image both to CMYK and RGB and have played around with the different color profiles, sRGB, Adobe RGBxxx etc. with very suble changes but nothing acceptable. I think we are to the point where the customer would be ok to start from scratch but if he doesn't know what to do differently I think we'll be right back here again.
Any suggestions? I'm frustrated and desperate to figure this out!
Thank for any ideas,
-Stephen

Hi there,
I work at a print shop and occasionally run into problems with documents being difficult to print, but this one is especially troubling. Out print shop does not have Photoshop but rather "Photo Impact..." I know, don't get me started. The issue is that I have a particular customer how did some designing in Photoshop CS4 (CS something) and it looks beautiful on his macbook but different on our PC (no matter what program we use to open any of his files- TIFF, PNG, JPG, etc). When printing to our Xerox Docucolor 252 the color is real dark and way less vivid/bright.
I tried the file on my home computer (PC with CS4) and it again looks great. When I print it on my home printer (Canon ip6700d) the printed colors are much closer to the screen even though I get an error telling me the printer is a non-postscript printer and so it will ignore some of the document properties. This leads me to believe that since the Xerox is a postscript enabled (I think) printer it is using data I know nothing about to darken and dirty the image. This is way outside of my knowledge and I would love to figure this out.
We have tried converting the image both to CMYK and RGB and have played around with the different color profiles, sRGB, Adobe RGBxxx etc. with very suble changes but nothing acceptable. I think we are to the point where the customer would be ok to start from scratch but if he doesn't know what to do differently I think we'll be right back here again.
Any suggestions? I'm frustrated and desperate to figure this out!
Thank for any ideas,
-Stephen

Issues printing on shared Windows printer

I'm trying to print on an HP LaserJet 1020 shared by a Windows XP computer. I shared the printer on XP, found it on the Mac, and added it as my default printer. (using the generic Postscript driver) When I hit Print on TextEdit, the document chugs for a moment and is sent over. Sometimes I'm asked for login credentials, which I supply. On the PC, I can see a "Remote Downlevel Document" in the print queue.
But that's where it stops -- the document never comes out. I don't see any error messages on either side, the document is just stuck in the queue. I've tried restarting all computers and printers, but nothing seems to make it happy.
What can I try next?

I had to set up a Unix printer server on my XP with the printers. After following the directions I had to change some of the printer settings ports - was pretty easy to set up and worked for me. The link has directions to set up xp printer.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324078

The printer does not stop printing

I have set up my printer (HP Color LaserJet CP1215) to my airport extreme; I have succeed to print to my printer. But the printer keep printing the same pages, and it prints continuously. Anybody know why this can be happened?

Hello hhartono. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I assume that you have this printer connected to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) ... correct? If so, does the AirPort Utility recognize it as the exact printer model?
Unfortunately, not all USB printers are compatible with AirPort base stations. In addition, the AirPort's USB port does not support the "advanced" printer functions, like scanning, copying or faxing, of multi-function printers.
To see if your printer is compatible, take a look at this iFelix Unofficial AirPort Printer Compatibility link.
If your printer isn't listed, it doesn't necessarily mean it won't work, but simply that it has not been verified. iFelix also provides the following workaround for printers not on the list that would certainly be worth a try.
Also you can try this Apple Tech Support article to see if it will help:
o Printer troubleshooting for AirPort Base Stations and Time Capsule
Finally, check out this IBM support article to see if the printer you are interested in is listed as having a Postscript or PCL3 interface. If it does, then it will most likely work with the AirPort's USB port. Printers that use the "HP LIDIL" interface must be connected to a computer directly and will not work.

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