Centos 5.6 and Cups 2.4.6

[Scott Hallenbeck]

> Scott Hallenbeck wrote:
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> >>
> >> --Boundary_(ID_QpIPheQUAuyplDZmG8ES+g)
> >> Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
> >> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
> >>
> >> On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Scott Hallenbeck wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] Print-Job client-error-bad-request:
> >> > Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"! ...
> >> > What I am thinking is that the real issue here is: Print-Job
> >> > client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"!
> >> >
> >> > Since it seems to print 'local' jobs just fine, I can't help but wonder
> >> > if it's the print jobs coming in that are causing this.
> >> >
> >> > Any idea's on how I can fix this?
> >>
> >>
> >> Your clients are submitting print jobs with an unsupported character set.
> >> CUPS 1.4.x only supports "utf-8" (Unicode).
> >>
> >> ________________________________________________________________________
> >> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > What I don't understand is that these files are all pdf type, and when I
> > push the same file through the printers from the command line they print.
> > If it were the files being sent, wouldn't it fail at the command line as
> > well?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
>
> Might it be that the remote system still has a CUPS 1.1.x running?
>
> Helge
>

Thank you for your reply!

And yes, the remote servers are running 1.1.22rc1 associated with CentOS 4.5.
Unfortunately I am not yet privy to the print path from the application servers to the print server but I am told that if cups is shut down on the apps server that everything stops printing.

I thought of this too, but the only thing that doesn't make sense then is that we have a CUPS server running cups 1.3.7 (centOS 5.5) and it works fine with everything except our HP p3005 servers, which is the main reason for trying to upgrade to 1.4.6.

So as it stands, I need to have a version of cups that is more recent than 1.1.22rc1 but can print to HP p3005 printers without jamming them up and without updating their firmware.  CUPS 1.1.22rc1 works fine with these, and the local prints I send from CUPS 1.4.6 works fine as well, it's just CUPS 1.3.7 that doesn't.

I am fairly new to CUPS in a large environment like this and really lost on how to proceed from here.

Scott