PCL printing failure Red Hat Linux

[Helge Blischke]

Chris VanDuyn wrote:

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>> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 08:10 -0700, Chris VanDuyn wrote:
>> > Also, we are in the middle of migrating our systems from AIX to Linux.
>> > If I take a Linux generated PCL file, move it to an AIX box and print
>> > using "lp -d <printer> <filename> I get correct output. The AIX box is
>> > not using CUPS.
>>
>> What is the actual source format?  If you didn't generate PCL from it,
>> what format would it be in?
>>
>> The standard CUPS filters don't process PCL input -- all they can do is
>> pass it through raw, or generate PCL output from other types of input
>> file.
>>
>> Tim.
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> 
> The PCL file is being generated from a PICK/Unibasic program which embeds
> the PCL formatting within the text file as the file is being created.
> During normal operations the resulting text file is sent to the printer
> using the "lpr" command by the running program executing a "close
> printer", but for testing purposes I've captured one of those files and am
> just sending the file to the printer from the command line. The result
> isn't any different regardless of which method is used to get the file to
> the printer.
> 
> Hopefully I've answered your question. In case it's not obvious, I'm an
> analyst and programmer by trade and have no real experience with Linux or
> CUPS prior to two days ago. Basically, no one else could figure this out
> so it was dumped on...er, I mean assigned to me. :-)

Perhaps you could post (an URL to) a sample file. Maybe you could tweak your 
CUPS by editing the mime stuff only ...

Helge