cups-lpd raw printing not possible with 1.2.7

[Michael Sweet]

roland.morgenroth.kapp-coburg wrote:
> hi,
> 
> this weekend i updated our printserver from cups-1.1.?? (SuSE-9.3) to 1.2.7-12.1 (opensuse-10.2).
> SAMBA and most other applications printing works fine.
> Printing from HP-UX remote clients doesn´t work anymore.
> the application generates a PCL3 file which is transfered via cups-lpd to the cups server.
> 
> /etc/cups/mime.convs:
> application/octet-stream        application/vnd.cups-raw        0       -
> 
> /etc/cups/mime.types:
> application/octet-stream
> 
> /etc/xinetd.conf/cups-lpd:
> server      = /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
> server_args = cups-lpd -o document-format=application/octet-stream
> 
> in the error-log i see:
> I [26/Feb/2007:09:40:03 +0100] Job 771549 created on "edv2" by "root".
> I [26/Feb/2007:09:40:03 +0100] File of type application/vnd.cups-raw queued in job #771549 by "root".
> I [26/Feb/2007:09:40:03 +0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 28822) for job 771549.
> I [26/Feb/2007:09:40:03 +0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 28823) for job 771549.
> 
> why is the cups server /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops?
> i think this is causing the problem. (the file is PCL3 not PS)

The cups-lpd program is requesting a banner page, since that is
what the LPD client is asking for...

Multi-file raw printing is currently broken and won't be fixed until
1.3.

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