[cups.general] Printing from Linux to OS X

[Michael Sweet]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:41:24PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> 
>>I'm a Linux user that was given an older PowerMac running OS X (10.3)
>>and Cups 1.1 and an attached Epson Photo 870.  I can get the test
>>page to print and can print from OpenOffice, but not from The Gimp.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>        Device URI: file:///dev/null
> 
> 
> That was the problem.  I run lpinfo -v on the Mac and it reported the
> URI:
> 
>   direct usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20870?serial=w44150006290707120
> 
> Updated printers.conf and it now prints from The Gimp (gimp-print) on
> a client running Linux.
> 
> 
> 
>>    Why is the Device URI /dev/null?
> 
> 
> Good question!  Why was it /dev/null by default?  Do files normally
> get submitted as PS or PDF and get routed to the printer by another
> route?  So raw printing is not supported by default?

Raw printing is never supported when printing to file: pseudo-devices.
Otherwise, you can always print raw as long as the
application/vnd.cups-raw MIME type is present in /etc/cups/mime.types.

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