CUPS Print Self Test Page does not work for non-Postscript printers
George Liu
george.liu at ussj.ricoh.com
Tue Jan 11 11:51:05 PST 2011
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with CUPS 1.4.4.
I setup a printer queue for a PCL-XL printer, using socket 9100 protocol.
>From CUPS web interface, I picked "Maintenance-> Print Self Test Page".
The test page printed, however, it printed the following information:
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%!
userdict dup(\004) cvn{}put (\004\004)cvn{}put
% You are using the wrong driver
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It seems that the command did not go through filter chain and landed in printer directly. What will confuse the user is the sentence "You are using the wrong driver".
On a Postscript printer, it worked fine, and printed out printer model name along with PSVersion.
Can we change the print self-test content to be something neutral?
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