cups-lpd

[Jacob Lindberg]

> Jacob Lindberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running a CUPS 1.1.23. It's a Gentoo ppc64 distribution running inside an i5 machine as an LPAR. So far this setup is working more than perfectly.
> >
> > A couple of days ago I enabled cups-lpd on this machine, since I wanted my OS400 to be able to deliver print to my different queues. This worked out pretty well. I created a queue on the os400 which is just delivering the print to my CUPS via lpd.
> >
> > Now I'm considering upgrading to CUPS 1.2.5. So what I have done is to copy my setup to another box (since the above is production), and verified that everything is working. Except some different lib updates, I got it to work without any problems.
> >
> > Now here is the problem. The cups-lpd is able to get the print from the OS400, but on the output (the paper itself) I only get a square in the middle giving me the Job ID, Title, Requesting User, and Billing info. My question is: What am I missing here?
>
> I can't tell from the logs (you are missing the initial job creation),
> but are your print files "raw" files (PCL text, or something like
> that) that are getting passed directly to the printer?
>
> If so, you are probably running into a known issue (STR #1933) with
> raw printing of multiple files and/or banners.
>
Hi Mike

You are totally right. I also tested it with SAP print actually, and this is the same situation as in #1933.

I will look forward for an update, or 1.3 :)

Sorry for not seeing this before posting in the forum.