[cups.general] Printing 'raw' - Zebra TLP2844 label printer

[Michael Sweet]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 AM, SteveT wrote:
> I have an application that needs to print to a Zebra TLP2844 label  
> printer.
> CUPS has an epl2 driver for this printer, but when I print using lpr  
> it prints the commands in the file, not the result of the commands.
> If I cat the same file to the printer (sudo'd), it works fine. So it  
> seems that the epl2 driver is 'interfering' with the data. So I then  
> tried to use the lpr -o raw option, but that comes up with:
>
> lpr -oraw -P TLP2844 pdCCoil.out
> lpr: Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-raw'!
>
> (I have tried both with and without a space ie -o raw and -oraw)
>
> Although I can use the 'cat' command, I don't want to do that as it  
> needs 'root' privileges, and this must be open to general users.
>
> Any ideas?


Sounds like your distribution has commented the application/vnd.cups- 
raw MIME type out in mime.types...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer