[cups.general] Raw Printing Doesn't work...

[Chris]

Thanks Paul,

I can try everything except the last part.  These are USB printers.   
That is why we need
to share them through cups and/or samba.  (I am assuming that there is  
no telnet option,
since there is no jetdirect port, correct?)

I will be back on site this week to give that a try...


Quoting Paul <pconklin at gentlemanslife.com>:

> It sounds like the printer is flushing the job.  As long as it isn't  
>  an intermec printer, they should be flat ascii jobs.  if you pause   
> the queue, cat out the c* file in the /var/spool/cups directory you   
> should be able to paste that into a telnet session to the printer on  
>  9100.  if that doesn't print, you have a bum print job. that's   
> missing something (or out and out wrong language) and the printer is  
>  flushing the job.
>
>> 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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>> ________________________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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