Raw Printing Doesn't work...

[Paul]

what kind of a printer is it?  if you can post / e-mail the contents of the d file (i had them backwards when I posted earlier, you want the d, not the c file) i can take a look as well.
> Thanks Paul,
>
> I can try everything except the last part.  These are USB printers.  =20
> That is why we need
> to share them through cups and/or samba.  (I am assuming that there is =20
> 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 =20
> >  an intermec printer, they should be flat ascii jobs.  if you pause  =20
> > the queue, cat out the c* file in the /var/spool/cups directory you  =20
> > should be able to paste that into a telnet session to the printer on =20
> >  9100.  if that doesn't print, you have a bum print job. that's  =20
> > missing something (or out and out wrong language) and the printer is =20
> >  flushing the job.
> >
> >> For those that don't have the code-name-to-CUPS-version decoder  =20
> >> ring, what version of CUPS are you actually running?
> >>
> >> Do you see anything in the /var/log/cups/error_log file that would  =20
> >> 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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