Dumping the final print stream

[Helge Blischke]

Oliver wrote:
> 
> To debug how do you 'dump the final print stream to file' instead of sending it to the intended printer.
> 
> Thanks for your time

(1) shut down CUPS
(2) edit your printers.conf as follows:
    a) comment out the DeviceURI line of the printer to test
    b) insert the line
       DeviceURI file:/var/tmp/mydump.ps
(3) start CUPS
Then print your test job.
Afterwards, revert to the prvious configuration.

Helge

PS: This somewhat clumsy approach makes sure that nothing else in the
configuration
get changed (in case you don't *really* trust the configuration tools).

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Helge Blischke
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