Sorry (here's the breif version):

1) Troubleshoot:  "What is it - what is it not?"

What do your logs say?

Example [...]
2) Verify Cups PDF settings: "Divide and conquer.."

What changed?  Did you upgrade any drivers?
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Reference:  http://port25.technet.com/videos/winlinchapter.pdf

3) Challenge your Assumptions:  "PDF - some printer drivers don't support PDF..."

Have you EVER been able to print to a PDF?

http://www.linux.com/feature/61826

http://www.linuxprinting.org/  - check features of drivers here.

4)  Other information:  "Did you know..."

cups-pdf will allow you to print to a PDF.

Did you know you can also use Ghostscript to create a psuedo printer device to print directly to a PDF from a Windows based system using Samba?

Reference:  http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:_mv73Q9Q0EUJ:www.reverendlinux.com/linux/mpdf.pdf+XP+workstation+to+my+samba+shared+pdf+format&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us&client=firefox-a


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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:13:08 -0700
From: eric.cope@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Subject: Re: samba and pdfs

Or switching between pcl and ps drivers. That has stopped by ability to print pdfs before.
Eric

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:32 -0700, Sean Roe wrote:
> I guess some more details would be helpful:
>
> I am using a raw printer: here is the samba.conf lines that are
> important:
>
> cups options = raw
> printing = cups
> local master = Yes
> printcap name = cups
> security = share
> printer = Cannon560
> load printers = yes
>
> [Cannon560]
>         public = yes
>         writable = no
>         printable = yes
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         use client driver = Yes
>
> I am using the Canon i560 driver on the Windows boxes

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
> wrote:
>
>         On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:20 -0700, Sean Roe wrote:
>         > Hi All,
>         >
>         > I am trying to print a pdf from an XP workstation to my
>         samba shared
>         > printer attached to a fedora core 9 server.  I can print
>         other kinds
>         > of docs from each workstation (email, spreadsheets, pictures
>         and the
>         > like) but for some reason I cant print PDFs.  The printer is
>         a canon
>         > i560 on the lpt port,  I have tried different PDFs and even
>         different
>         > clients (Adobe and Foxit Reader) and the same behavior
>         happens: the
>         > priniting dialog comes up I accept it, it starts the
>         printing progress
>         > bar, sits in that state for approx minute and then returns
>         like it
>         > worked.   If sombody could point me to a resource, I have
>         spent an
>         > hour looking on the web to no avail, I would be most
>         thankful.
>
>         ----
>         generally, I use windows native print drivers and set up cups
>         to give me
>         a 'raw' printer that just allows the windows native print
>         driver to work
>         without putting print code through the ghostscript
>         interpreter.
>
>         You don't say how you are actually printing so it's hard to
>         give you
>         anything specific here.
>
>         In general, a PDF should print just like any other document.
>
>         Craig
----

well the whole point of RAW printing and native print driver is that the
only place to lay blame for printing issues is the print driver itself
because RAW merely passes the packets through as they are received and
does absolutely nothing to alter them.

You might want to check Canon for a more recent driver or their support
pages for solving this issue.

Craig

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