Any desktop system can print to SavaPage with a PostScript driver. The driver can either be generic, or a mainstream one from a vendor as shipped with the OS, or a dedicated one provided by SavaPage. When printing from public Internet a private Device URI must be used. See Section 3.10.1, “Internet Printer”.
Caution
Although the SavaPage driver is not required, beware that vendor-specific drivers might offer options that are irrelevant, or not supported by the SavaPage Print Server.
The SavaPage Printer Driver comes as a PostScript Printer Description
(PPD), as captured in the SAVAPAGE.ppd
file located in the shared client
directory
/opt/savapage/client. The driver is optimized for SavaPage
printing. Irrelevant options, like Duplex Printing are
stripped, other options like Paper Size and
Resolution, are narrowed down to the most common choices.
If you feel options are missing please let us know.
Important
SAVAPAGE.ppd is a PostScript-only driver, and does
not produce PDF. This is on purpose,
since PDF producing drivers print landscape orientated documents with 270
page rotation. As a result these documents will show as portrait orientated
SafePages. [31]
The driver file can be downloaded from the About section of the User Web App and Admin Web App.
The installation scripts below use the SavaPage printer driver. When you want to use a PostScript driver already present in the OS, please use the proper selection dialogs.
Caution
The SavaPage JetDirect Server accepts PostScript print jobs only. So do not use the JetDirect protocol unless you are absolutely sure that the print client uses PostScript as Print Job Format. Windows clients can safely use JetDirect. On macOS and GNU/Linux systems IPP and IPPS are the obvious choices.
Preview
IPP Options from PostScript is a Feature Preview that is fully operational but impermanent. The preview is offered to provoke feedback based on real world use. Please tell us your requirements.
During PostScript Driver Print the PostScript stream is scanned by SavaPage for elements that can be mapped to IPP options.
| PostScript element | value | IPP option | value |
|---|---|---|---|
|
%RBINumCopies: %%BeginNonPPDFeature: NumCopies |
copies | (number of copies) | |
|
%%BeginFeature: *Duplex |
None DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble |
sides |
one-sided two-sided-long-edge two-sided-short-edge |
|
%%BeginFeature: *Collate |
True False |
sheet-collate |
collated uncollated |
|
featurebegin{<< /Collate |
true false |
sheet-collate |
collated uncollated |
|
<</ProcessColorModel |
/DeviceCMYK /DeviceGray |
print-color-mode |
color monochrome |
|
featurebegin{<< /ProcessColorModel |
/DeviceCMYK /DeviceGray |
print-color-mode |
color monochrome |
|
@PJL SET LCOLORMODEL= |
CMYK BLACK |
print-color-mode |
color monochrome |
Table 14.2. PostScript elements mapped to IPP options
Note
If Inherit IPP options from print-in document is enabled extracted IPP options are used for Fast Print Mode.
[31] SavaPage acts as a Virtual PostScript Printer Device. This
is separate from the decision on the OSDL Printing Summit in 2006 to
switch the GNU/Linux standard print job transfer format from
PostScript to PDF. See https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/pdf_as_standard_print_job_format