Problem with job names on remote ipp printer

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Sat Sep 8 11:18:08 PDT 2007


Jakub wrote:

> I am using openSuse 10.2 with Cups 1.27. I have Develop INEO+ 250 
> printer. 

Nice little thing, that  :-)

> I have add this printer to local Cups server as remote ipp 
> queue. Printer driver was installed from PPD file. Cups works great I 
> am printing booklets with correctly filtered options. I have one 
> problem. Cups stores job names correctly, but these names are lost 
> when they are stored on printer. Every job which is coming from cups 
> appears on remote queue as "Unknown". I haven't got this problem when 
> I am printing from windows, unfortunately :( What am I doing wrong? 
> Is it a Cups bug or it possible to add some conf options to forward 
> job names correctly.

What happens if you print from the commandline using the "-t", resp.
the "-T" parameter?

   lp -d ineo -t "This is the job title" /path/to/file
   lpr -P ineo -T "This is the job title" /path/to/file

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