Trouble with LPD & IPP printing

This is driving me nuts.
I work for an external IT company that looks after the macs for a Design Studio in a University.
They have amongst others, 4 Xerox copiers handled by a central RIP server which was no problem when they where in their old studio connected via the same network switch. I would set the printers up on the Macs via LPD, one for Colour & another for Mono. The print jobs go into a Hold queue on the server & are manually assigned to the relevant copier.
All macs on 10.4.11
The studio then moved to a different location on Campus & at first all seemed to be working fine. Then I installed two new iMacs with 10.5 & set up the printers as normal but when I tried to print to the rip server it failed.
If I set up the printer via LPD & try to print, the job sits in the queue with the message "Remote host did not accept control file (1)".
If I set up the printer via IPP & try to print, the job sits in the queue with the message "/Libray/Printers/Xerox/filter/XeroxPSFilter failed Network host ip address is busy, will retry in 30 seconds"
I thought it was something to do with Leopard but then I had to rebuild one of the G5's with 10.4 & I got the same errors except that on IPP I just get "Printer Busy, will retry in 10 seconds".
If I share the printer from one of the Macs that is working normally & print through that from the iMac it works fine. I have the latest PPD's I have reset the print system, pulled my hair out & swore a lot but none of these things have resolved it.
I decided to take one of the iMacs down to the Xerox room so that it was on the same network switch again but all I got was the same error messages. A couple of the copiers have Appletalk enabled so I set them up on the iMac bypassing the central rip sever & the job went straight through. I got onto the other iMac via screen sharing in the design studio & set up the the same printer but got the message /Libray/Printers/Xerox/filter/XeroxPSFilter failed.
If I look in the console it's pretty much full with the messages below.
8/30/08 3:57:21 AM com.apple.atprintd.XeroxMonoHold[73] nbp_send: nbpvalidateentity failed
8/30/08 3:57:21 AM com.apple.atprintd.XeroxMonoHold[73] nbp_lookup: nbp_send failed got=-1
If anybody could help I would be most grateful.
Thanks

If the RIP is an EFI Fiery product, then the LPD queue name has to be entered when you create the printer queue. If it is not Fiery, it still may require some specific queue name to print.
If any Mac is still printing to the RIP, you can check what queue name has been used via a browser. For the URL, enter http://127.0.0.1:631/printers to open the CUPS printer page. Scroll through to the Xerox and have a look at the Device URI. If it shows something like lpd://ip_address/print, then you know a queue name is required - in the case of the Fierys it has to be print or hold and it must be entered in lower case.
As for the IPP, you may find that this service has not been enabled or does not exist on the RIP.
Regards,
PaHu

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