[cups.general] Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-banner'!

[Michael Sweet]

Did you select "Raw Device" for the make and model, or a particular driver?

On May 19, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Silas Silva wrote:

> Sorry, I'm not used to most of the CUPS functionality.
> 
> On the web interface, I just clicked the network printer (among many on this organization) that I wanted to work with. I could also change just Internet Printing Protocol or other option not directly associated to a printer.  Is that what you mean?
> 
>> Are you using a raw queue, or ???
>> 
>> On May 19, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Silas Silva wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all.
>>> 
>>> I just installed cups 1.4.6 from pkgsrc (www.pkgsrc.org) in my NetBSD 5.1 system.
>>> 
>>> Printers are found and installed fine, but when I try to print a test from the web interface, this error shows up:
>>> 
>>> Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-banner'!
>>> 
>>> After enabling debugging in cupsd.conf, I could get the following information:
>>> 
>>> (...)
>>> D [19/May/2011:16:29:38 -0300] Print-Job ipp://localhost:631/printers/hp_LaserJet_4250
>>> D [19/May/2011:16:29:38 -0300] [Job ???] Auto-typing file...
>>> I [19/May/2011:16:29:38 -0300] [Job ???] Request file type is application/vnd.cups-banner.
>>> D [19/May/2011:16:29:38 -0300] Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-banner'!
>>> E [19/May/2011:16:29:38 -0300] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/hp_LaserJet_4250) from localhost
>>> D [19/May/2011:16:29:38 -0300] PID 12564 (/usr/pkg/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) exited with no errors.
>>> (...)
>>> 
>>> Both mime.types and mime.convs have an entry for application/vnd.cups-banner:
>>> 
>>> $ grep banner *
>>> mime.convs:application/vnd.cups-banner  application/postscript          33      bannertops
>>> mime.types:application/vnd.cups-banner  string(0,'#CUPS-BANNER')
>>> 
>>> And bannertops exist.
>>> 
>>> What could be happening? Is there any more I can do to get more information?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
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>> 
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