[cups.general] Missing print jobs in page_log

[Michael Sweet]

On May 11, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Shimi Chen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are running Ubuntu 8.04 server with CUPS 1.3.9-2ubuntu9.5.
> 
> Some print jobs being sent to the server from MS Windows workstations(the only kind of workstation OS we have installed) are not logged in the page_log file.
> 
> It seems that mostly Windows 7 prints are not logged. There is no problem with the printing itself, they are just not all logged for some reason.

Jobs from the Windows system are probably getting tagged as application/vnd.cups-postscript (printer-ready PostScript) and so bypass the normal filter paths. This prevents page logging from working unless the backend can supply the necessary information.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair