CUPS in RHEL creates a print file that is too large

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

The print files received by Windows are much larger than the ones sent to CUPS. The file sent to CUPS is 272 KB, but the file received by Windows is 8 MB.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.4.2
  • Printing to a Windows print server

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