[cups.general] Spool only

[Michael Sweet]

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> We just finished a major upgrade from AIX 4 to Linux (thus from lpr to
> CUPS).  We are maintaining an old program that was printing control
> characters and PCL stuff directly: lpr was just spooling.  How can we do
> this in CUPS?  ie. lp/lpr would spool directly to the printer with no
> filtering, etc...

Setup a raw queue ("-m raw" option with lpadmin) and enable the
application/octet-stream type in /etc/cups/mime.types to allow for
raw data to be printed.

*Do not* use the Red Hat print configuration utilities...

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