[cups.general] Win2K printing (yes I RTFMed :)

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Mon Feb 21 15:01:35 PST 2005


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Jeff Hardy wrote:

> This looks like you do not have raw printing enabled.  At the bottom of
> your mime.types and mime.convs files in your cups config directory
> (usually /etc/cups) you'll find some more info.  Named, uncomment the
> lines:
>
> application/octet-stream
>
>
> application/octet-stream        application/vnd.cups-raw        0

Thanks Jeff.  That worked perfectly.

Just one question.  Since it doesn't seem to impact printing under *nix
and I expect would often be needed for printing under Windows, why is it
commented out by default?

Cheers,
	Rob

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