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Print PDF files directly with a PS driver (CP3505dn)

Asked by Dukai Gábor

Hello!

On a PDF-capable printer (CP3505dn) using the postscript driver is it possible to set up a rule to bypass the PDF-to-PS conversion and send PDF files directly to the printer?

thanks,
Gabor

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

To bypassing the PDF to PS conversion you can print the file in raw mode from the command line.

lpr -o raw -Pprinter_queue_name filename.pdf

Where printer_queue_name is the name of the printer queue.

Hope this helps.

Aaron

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Dukai Gábor (gdukai) said : 		#2

Thanks.
This definitely works but it would be better to have a MIME type solution or similar to automatically detect PDF files. That would work from various applications without the need to select a special printer.

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

You might be able to setup a printer queue and change the filter params in cups, but I'm not 100% how to do this. You might also be able to modify the ppd to do it as well.

Sorry I don't have the specific information, it's not a common request. However if you do have a more detailed solution and provide me the details I'll create a how to on it for other users.

Thanks for your support.

Aaron

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Raghothama Cauligi (raghothama-cauligi) said : 		#4

/etc/cups/mimes.conv has mime mapping. You can take out the
application/pdf line so cups won't run the pdf through the pdftops filter,
however, if you do this, you will not be able to print to non-pdf printers.
Raghu

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Aaron Albright proposed the following answer:
You might be able to setup a printer queue and change the filter params in cups, but I'm not 100% how to do this. You might also be able to modify the ppd to do it as well.

Sorry I don't have the specific information, it's not a common request.
However if you do have a more detailed solution and provide me the details I'll create a how to on it for other users.

Thanks for your support.

Aaron

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