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

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu May 19 15:48:24 PDT 2011


On May 19, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Silas Silva wrote:
>> What you'll need to do is set the LogLevel to debug2 with:
>> 
>> 	cupsctl LogLevel=debug2
>> 
>> and then run:
>> 
>> 	grep add_printer_filter /var/log/cups/error_log
>> 
>> I'm guessing that the drivers you are using are specifying filters that do not exist...
> 
> grep found nothing. Anyway, the entire log file (I reset it before setting LogLevel=debug2) is here: http://www.silas.net.br/spare/error_log

The log shows you are missing the pstoraster filter; have you installed Ghostscript?

> Are the drivers the PPD files?


The PPD files are part of drivers; in some cases (PostScript printers) they can be all of the driver, but usually there are one or more helper programs ("filters") that CUPS uses to convert things to a printable format.

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