[cups.general] Restrict print job based on MIME type

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Wed Nov 8 03:51:47 PST 2006


On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:06:43AM +0000, Ari Constancio wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> The printer in question (HP Laserjet 1300) is set with its PPD file;
> with the script Jerome kindly sent, the MIME type appears as
> "application/postscript" and not as "application/pdf" (I want to deal
> specifically with PDFs).
> 
> I found no answers reading the CUPS manual or browsing the
> mime.{types,convs} files.

you could print your PDF files in raw mode "lp -o raw yourfile.pdf"
this way they would be sent to the backend without any filtering.

bye

Jerome Alet





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