[cups.bugs] Incorrect assignment of "JobSheets" in printers.conf
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Tue Jul 7 06:31:44 PDT 2009
Frank Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
> I am not an expert in cups and I am hoping to address the right people here.
>
> Today I observed a strange behavior that every time I printed a banner-page "Classified" before and after content - although the settings of this printer (cups-pdf) were set to none.
>
> Looking into the printers.conf - file in the /etc/cups - directory I found that my first printer (a Brother laser printer) has the setting "JobSheets classified classified". I removed the setting there and surprisingly cups-pdf didn't print the banner any more.
>
> Changing "JobSheets" to "confidential confidential" in the settings of the BROTHER-printer(!) resulted in printing cups-pdf (my fourth printer) to print the "confdential"-banner (nothing changed in the cups-pdf-section, of course).
>
> I assume, that this is an error in cups and that the settings of the first configuration in "printers.conf" is used for every following printer.
How are you printing?
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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