Lpd Software For Mac

Installing the LPD printer on your Mac OS X systems. In rare situations, the driver they provide may support the LPD method of printing described above. Mac OS X Printing via the Windows Print Server. Typically supported by all Mac drivers. Printing via LPD (Line Printer Daemon) - (Preferred): This section covers setting up this service, and installing and using a printer on Mac OSX. The first step in allowing printing is to enable the LPD service within Windows. After setting up LPD services on enabling the LPD print queue on the printer. The next step is to install the printer onto your Mac. Open Print & Fax within the System Preferences of your operating system.

Morning, I wonder if anyone has encountered the following problem? NETWORK SET UP We have a network of 8 macs & a Fuji Xerox c2255 printer all connected to a gigabit switch. The Fuji Xerox has an fixed ip address 192.168.1.122 All devices have fixed ip address.

PROBLEM Only one mac (Mac Pro) can print direct to the Fuji Xerox Printer. This Mac Pro is on 10.5.8.

And it is sharing its printer connection with the rest of the studio. Oddily enough, the Appletalk function is turned on. When the appletalk function is turned off on the ethernet port, it can not longer directly print nor share the Fuji Xerox with the rest of the network The remainder of the Macs are all on 10.6.4 or 10.6.3. When the printer is first installed on the an iMac client, it can print from text files, offices docs, from safari or firefox with out any problem. But when it attempts to print a pdf file (preview) or Indesign files then it pauses the printer.

Within the printer queue, if attempt to restart the printer, the printer pauses. It remains in this state indefinitely. When looking at the CUPS logs via the console, the error is printer-state-message="/usr/libexec/cups/backend/lpd failed'. This is the message displayed on all the clients that attempt to print directly (via LPD) to the Fuji Xerox.

Once this error message is logged, the iMac can no longer print out text files nor word documents. The following console log is typically of what all the 10.6.x clients are reporting, D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 STATE: +connecting-to-device D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 Looking up '192.168.1.122'. D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 Connecting to 192.168.1.122:515 for printer D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 Connecting to printer. D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 STATE: -connecting-to-device D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 Connected to printer.

D 15/Jul/2010:18:38:07 +1000 Job 4 Connected to 192.168.1.122:515 (IPv4) (local port 1008). Hello Fred, The issue certainly sounds interesting and not one that I've ever experienced but I would like to offer some help with determining the cause and possible solutions. The inability of the SL Mac's to connect using LPD and the failing of the service is unusual for all Mac's to experience. There is a chance that the LPD service is not enabled on the printer, or an additional queue name is required, however I would not expect either of these to stop the LPD service. Still it would be worth checking the printer setup. According to Xerox support for the C2255, perform the following: 1.

Press the Menu button on the control panel to display the menu screen. Press the Up or Down button until 'Print Reports' is displayed. Press the Right or OK button to select. 'Job History' is displayed. Press the Up or Down button until 'Configuration' is displayed. Press the Right or OK button to select. A print start confirmation screen appears.

Press the OK button to print. Once the Configuration Page is printed, press the Menu button to return to the 'Ready to print' screen.

I am expecting that you would see a reference to the LPD service being enabled or disabled. You may also see in the report if the printer supports other IP protocols, such as RAW Port 9100. If it does, then you can try using this protocol, which is called HP Jetdirect-Socket on the Mac. (I know that you mentioned that the printer only supports LPD and USB, but I find it unusual that a device that supports IPv6 would not support this protocol) Since the device supports Postscript you could also create a test queue using Generic Postscript. This may help to get past any filters or plugins that the Xerox driver uses and may be contributing to the symptom, especially since the printing seems to fail when a Postscript file or application is used. It would actually be good to see the cups error log immediately after this action is performed.

Thinking more about this the LPD error could be a by-product of other Xerox files failing. Again, the Generic PS driver would help for testing purposes.

Well that is about all I can think of for now. Feel free to reply to discuss the matter further.

In parting it is also interesting to read that Xerox support suggested to enable EtherTalk. They must not be aware that AppleTalk has been dropped from Mac OS X 10.6. Hi Pahu, Thanks for your reply. I noticed that you have replied to a number of other postings as well - you're a good sort!! Your knowledge and contribution to this forum is much appreciated and very welcome.

Yes, this is a curly problem. I've actually been trying to resolve it for several months. Interesting the c2255 is not stated as being supported under Apple's Fuji drivers release for SN. The driver has to be downloaded directly from Fuji Xerox. Thank you for the additional information Fred.

The config page shows that Port 9100 is enabled so as I said before I would be inclined to create another print queue, this time using IP HP Jetdirect-Socket for the protocol and possible even using Generic Postscript for the printer model. It would be interesting to see then if the PDF or InDesign files encounter the same problem. With regards to the bizarre symptom, it is actual not unusual to encounter the symptom you have. With regards to InDesign, I have seen a similar crashing issue you mention with files that have been sent to us. The same application using files created locally are fine, but some files created elsewhere will not print. In one case the application was looking for a Helios server for a high resolution version of an image contained within the file.

In another case a font conflict was causing the spooler to pause. In both cases we used Enfocus PitStop to learn more about the document creation, an expensive but invaluable tool for problem solving. Without PitStop you could select to print and check the Graphics tab within the ID print dialog.

Compare the Images and Fonts menus with a file that does print correctly. Also go to the OPI menu and ensure that image replacement is not being used. You should also check the Transparency Flattener menu and try a different preset. The last thing is the Summary menu in the print dialog. If you save this for the ID file that prints and then for one that causes problems, this can make things a lot easier to compare.

I too had this problem after the 10.6.4 update sharing a brother printer that worked flawlessly prior to the update - I solved it after trying many different combinations of types of printers and drivers by.+reseting the printing system on both machines+. on the client.choosing LPD printing, typing in the IP address of the host (print server) along with the full name of the Queue, selecting Generic Laser printer as the driver.THE HOST MACHINE THINKS PRINTER SHARING IS OFF, +but it's NOT+. the client will print without the busy message! Hello, Thank you for your ideas, Pahu and themachead. Pahu, your comment 'With regards to the bizarre symptom, it is actual not unusual to encounter the symptom you have. ' was very helpful.

It got me thinking that there may be more then one component affecting this situation. Via a process of elimination, I am thinking that it may be something to do with the way that the indesign documents are created, in particular how and where the eps images are located and how they are being access across the LAN. During my latest tests, the following error appeared, 'This document may contain binary EPS files, which can cause the print job to fail.' , which lead to this Adobe Tech Note,.

Note in particular the 'ADDITIONAL INFORMATION' of the the Tech Note. With this in mind, I carried out some tests and can confirm that if I create a pdf file from an Indesign document, I can print the document via Acrobat or Preview direct to the Fuji Xerox printer. Yet if I try to print the same Indesign document direct from Indesign, then the printer pauses and resorts to the behaviour described earlier. The next time I am onsite, I will try to print the 'created pdf' file direct from Indesign and see what happens. These test indicated two possible areas of contention - 1. Settings on the Fuji Xerox 2.

Indesign document structure For anyone else following this thread, have a look at this link from Adobe, I will return to this thread once I have more results and will close the thread when we have a solution. For now, if anyone else has any other solutions, please feel free to contribute. Thank you, Fred. Best home design app mac. So, I have a solution to the problem; it is not a complete solution but it is a working solution which will allow the department to keep working for the interim.

I believe our problem relates to how Indesign handles or processes certain types or format of data within an Indesign document (or the format of the Indesign document itself). If, Indesign outputs the data as ASCII, or binary, or whatever and the printer is unable to interpreted the output properly then the print job will fail. This may due to one of many factors (the format of the Indesign document, the embedded data within the document or the capabilities of the printer itself) or a combination of factors. In our particular case, I believe it is to do with a combination of factors.

I understand that Indesign (by default) will output data in a binary format. There is a very good document by Adobe that explains what happens with the processing of data by indesign at this link, In our particular case, I discovered that the Fuji Xerox c2255 did not appear to support binary printing in the Adobe Protocol via the LPD (ethernet) port. However, the printer DOES support binary printing in the Adobe Protocol via the USB ports. When tested - with the c2255 connected via USB cable rather then ethernet - it was very satisfying to be able to successful print directly to the c2255 printer from any pdf or postscript app (Adobe Indesign / Preview). For now, the printer is connected to a mac mini via usb cable and the mac mini acting is acting as a print server. All the dept Macs can print to the Fuji Xerox from whatever application they choose (Mail, Safari, Firefox, Word, Excel, Entourage, Photoshop, etc) including Adobe Indesign CS4.

I suspect that we will need to carry out further investigation looking at the format of the depts' Indesign documents. I have been advised that mid last year, the Indesign documents were batch processed from an older format to a newer format. It is conceivable that during the conversion process something was missing or not prepared correctly. This will require further investigation. Thank you, everyone, for your input, in particular PAHU and themachead.

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