QTR-Quadtone RIP

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> Thanks for the workaround, Walker. I have been printing K7 on a 4880 through Lightroom 2.7 / 3 and ran into the same issue w/ the recent Apple upgrade. In my case, nothing prints except letter size. I tried selecting tabloid, which is not a custom size, and still got a letter-sized piece of the larger print. I am able to access and create custom page sizes in LR, but when the print command is sent, the Get Info button on the printer dialogue box reveals that the page size received is letter.
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> Wish I had enough command-line expertise to replace cups as you suggest, but I did replace the pstops file with an earlier version through Time Machine - as suggested by someone on the Apple 10.6.5 printing forum. Unfortunately, that solution does not work for me.
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> The question: for X11-challenged folks like myself, are there other cups files that could be replaced with earlier versions through Time Machine — perhaps resulting in a fix?
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Walker Blackwell <forums@...> wrote:
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Well. As far as I can tell, the new version of CUPs is pretty darn integral to the new version of Snow Leopard. And in fact, 10.6.5 doesn't play very well with cups 1.4.5 installed via command line (though I didn't test compiling it specifically for intel chips running 64bit)  So it looks to me like it was some sort of implementation than Apple did with their packaging of CUPs into their massive OS upgrade (10.6.5)

10.6.5 screwed up all sorts of other printing things too with EU 4800 drivers, printserver issues, etc. But it did let CS5 print correctly with grayscale ICC profiles!!! Yay!

The procedure for installing cups from command line is rather simple.

1. Get a free developer account with Apple.
2. Download xcode and install.
3. download cups 1.4.5 source. (www.cups.org)
4. Un-compress the file and open Terminal.
5. type: cd  and a space and then drag the folder icon over the terminal window and hit enter.
6. Type sudo ./configure
7. sudo make
8. sudo make install

This will install cups 1.4.5 from source.

I actually went back and installed 1.4.4 and then re-installed 1.4.5 and this seemed to work. Messed up some other parts of the system though so I wouldn't totally recommend it if you don't have a time machine backup.

all the best,
Walker

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