[cups.general] Hp Dj 5740 prints backwards wXp->linux

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Mar 16 06:50 Anonymous wrote (shortened):
> I am using Suse 9.0.
> I have a hp5740 installed as a raw printer on linux
> (with uncommented lines on mime.convs and mime.types)

Mime.* files are not used for raw queues.
Activating the application/octet-stream line in mime.* files
does not make a normal queue a raw queue.
If raw printing is activated in *.types and *.convs,
raw printing is done as fallback if no other mime type applies.
This way any user can accitentally print tons of sheets with
meaningless characters when sending unsupported binary data
(e.g. *.doc files or whatever proprietary format) to CUPS.
An explicite "-o raw" is possible in any case to enforce
raw printing when the user really wants it.

Therefore my question:
Is it really a raw queue?
See for example
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
what a raw queue is.


> I am trying to print from windows XP installing HP own drivers

If it is really a raw queue, it is only the Windows driver
which produces the data for the printer.
Therefore you must solve the problem at the Windows driver.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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