[cups.general] Raw Printing Doesn't work...
Chris Ditri
grooveman at brokensolstice.com
Thu Apr 21 09:31:51 PDT 2011
Sorry, I guess I was expecting something simple regarding the
raw.convs and the raw.types thing... It is the stock version that
ships with Debian Squeeze, 1.4.4-7.
Slight type-o in my original post... there are two particular files in
/etc/cups: raw.convs and raw.types -- instead of the mime.convs and
mime.types mentioned in the docs. mime.convs and mime.types are
nowhere to be found on the system. I do not understand the
significance of this, but I can't help but wonder if it has something
to do with it. I can't find any documentation on the issue...
Like I said, there is no error output anywhere I can find. Nothing on
the web interface, nothing in /var/log/cups/error_log, in
/var/log/messages or in any other log file. It just seems to vanish.
I have tried printing from windows boxes via samba (with the driver
installed on the local machine), I tried test pages from the CUPS web
interface, I have tried echoing text from the command line.
Everything winds up the same -- it just vanishes.
Thanks again.
Quoting Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com>:
> For those that don't have the code-name-to-CUPS-version decoder
> ring, what version of CUPS are you actually running?
>
> Do you see anything in the /var/log/cups/error_log file that would
> indicate that the wrong thing happened?
>
> On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Chris wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running CUPS on a debian Squeeze system. I am trying to set up
>> two, known-good, printers with raw print queues. Every time I send a
>> print job to them, however, it vanishes into thin air. Cups reports
>> that the job was printed successfully, and there is no error output
>> anywhere that I can find.
>>
>> However, when I use a ppd on the queue, it works as expected. I
>> remove the ppd and set it back to a raw queue, and once again it
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> I have done this in the past with no issues. I have even done it with
>> one of these very same printers. I have looked at the docs, and find
>> them to be inconsistent with what I see on my system. There are no
>> mime.convs and mime.types files in my /etc/cups directory. There are,
>> however, two files named raw.convs and mime.types. They appear to set
>> up to be the same. I have been hunting on this for days now, and I
>> cannot find any word regarding this issue, or the mysterious raw.convs
>> and raw.types files.
>>
>> I would be very appreciative if someone could illuminate me here,
>> because I'm at a loss.
>>
>> My raw.types file:
>> application/octet-stream
>>
>> My raw.convs:
>> application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
>>
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