Job title is not showing up on cover sheet

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jan 2 06:21:03 PST 2007


cponder wrote:
> 
> I'm running I'm running Linux RHEL 3 on my IBM PC laptop,
> which uses CUPS to control printing. When I submit a print
> job using the form
> 
>      lpr -T <title>
> 
> the cover sheet is supposed to list
> 
>     Title: <title>
> 
> but instead it lists
> 
>     Title: -
> 
> I also tried the forms
> 
>     lpr -C <title>
>     lpr -J <title>
> 
> and they do the same thing. Everything else works -- duplex,
> rotation, page size, so there's nothing major that's broken.
> 
> Is there a way to debug this? Does CUPS keep some kind of
> log of the job parameters, or can I look at the print
> control-files to see if the job-title parameter is being
> passed correctly to the print-server?

Set the LogLevel in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to "debug" on both the client
and server and look for the title in the logs...

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