Printing from Java to local printer fails

Hans Artmann mail at arcasys.de
Tue Nov 10 15:49:21 PST 2009


Michael, thanks for your answer, but unfortunately it didn't help (and yes, I restarted cupsd).
Which debug information would be useful?

Hans

> Sun's IPP implementation does not conform to the spec, and they error =
> out when they see a "noValue" value for orientation-requested-default. =
> Do:
>
>     lpadmin -p printer -o orientation-requested-default=3D3
>
> to set a default (portrait) until Sun fixes their IPP implementation.
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Hans Artmann wrote:
>
> > PrintServiceLookup finds all printers. Jobs directed to a printer on a =
> remote machine are created and printed properly.
> > Jobs directed to a local printer don't even create a job entry in CUPS =
> and they don't print.
> > There is no exception thrown.
> > There are messages created in /var/log/cups/error_log on debug level =
> but no visible errors.
> > I tried with JRE1.6_03 and 1.6_12 and 1.6_17. and CUPS Versions: =
> 1.2.7, 1.3.8, 1.4.x
> >=20
> >> =46rom what I can see in the Java debugger I think it must have =
> something to do with Java sending to ipp://localhost:631
> > which is obviously not processed by cups while any other target works =
> fine.
> > A test page can be printed locally and e.g. lp -d printer file also =
> works.
> >=20
> > Any advice would be very much appreciated.
> > I've posted the same problem to the Sun Java Forum in parallel.
> >=20
> > Hans
> >=20
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> ___________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>
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