[cups.general] Remote raw printing via cups-lpd server

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Aug 21 03:03:46 PDT 2009


> > The raw option seems to be honored only when printing directly from the
> > same machine osx/cups server is running on. The same queue which changes
> > the job when it comes from remote client prints the very same pdf file
> > perfectly fine when it comes from local machine. 
> > What can we do to fix this problem?

I have lots of experience with this problem, try setting cups-lpd up as
below...

> Have you tried to set up cups-lpd to tun with the option "-o raw"?

root at crew ~]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd 
service printer
{
	socket_type = stream
	protocol = tcp
	wait = no
	user = lp
	group = lp
	passenv =
	server = /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
	server_args = -o job-sheets=none -o
document-format=application/vnd.cups-raw
}






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