Free iseries jobs driver

IBM iSeries Virtual Ethernet Point-to-Point

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have wiped out the contents of the /var/spool/cups folder in order to get printing restored, you need to recreate the /var/spool/cups/tmp folder and give it the proper privileges as follows:

• sudo mkdir /var/spool/cups/tmp
• sudo chown daemon:admin /var/spool/cups/tmp
• sudo chmod 1700 /var/spool/cups/tmp

This procedure will be handled by the installer in the next release.
Disclaimer:
Since this software replaces the IPP backend that ships with Jaguar (the original is saved with a ".orig" extension so that the software can be uninstalled), it should only be installed if you have non-OS X print servers and you are attempting to print to them from an OS X machine using Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). It should work just as well as the original for OS X servers, but I make no guarantees.
Description:
This is a little hack I threw together out of annoyance. It addresses a problem with certain Carbon apps and a custom print filter in Jaguar's CUPS distribution (Panther corrects this problem). Specifically, certain Carbon apps, including Adobe Acrobat Reader, produce print jobs in a PICT-encoded Postscript format. On OS X machines, the custom pictwpstops filter converts the job to straight Postscript before the normal CUPS filters get ahold of it.
Because of the way CUPS works, that conversion is done on the server side for remote (shared) printers. As long as the server is running OS X, the job is accepted and prints. However, if the server does not run OS X, e.g. a Linux server, it doesn't know what to do with a PICT-encoded Postscript file, so it just rejects the request. On the OS X side, Print Center repeatedly attempts to send the job to the server without success. This causes the job to hang up in the local queue but, because the printer is remote, the job is not cancelable.
This software fixes that problem by pre-filtering PICT-encoded Postscript into straight Postscript (which is a format recognized by all IPP print servers) using Apple's custom filter before sending the print job to the server.

Corrects directory permissions that interfere with printing. Problem - print jobs are spooled and do not print. If you have the previous 2.0 installation working, or if you are upgrading from 1.4.1to 2.0f, you do not need this patch. If you are upgrading from any version of 2.0 you need this patch.

This driver supports the following devices:

• Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
• Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Desktop Adapter
• Intel(R) PRO/100 VM Desktop Adapter
• 82562EH based Phoneline Desktop Adapter
• Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
• Intel(R) PRO/100 VM Network Connection
• 82562EH based Phoneline Network Connection
• Intel(R) PRO/100 P Mobile Adapter
• Intel(R) PRO/100 P Mobile Combo Adapter
• Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Desktop Connection
• IBM iSeries 2892 10/100 Ethernet Port
• Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Adapter
• Samsung HomePNA 1M CNR
• Intel(R) 82562 based Fast Ethernet Connection
• Intel(R) PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapter
• Intel(R) 82544EI Based Network Connection
• Intel(R) 82544GC Based Network Connection
• Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter
• Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection
• Intel(R) 82540EM Based Network Connection
• Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection