[cups.general] is CUPS 1.4.4-7 non-deterministic or error prone?

[Michael Sweet]

More than likely you are missing one or more filters specific to your distro and driver...


On Nov 27, 2011, at 1:23 PM, E. Gerlach wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> CUPS 1.4.4-7 (debian squeeze) was running fine for 2 weeks. Suddenly
> after some changes of ppd files CUPS claimed to accept jobs from a suse
> machine:
> 
> suse111:~ # lp -h cups -d hl5270 -o media=Tray1  /tmp/david.ps
> lp: format „application/postscript“ not supported
> (translated from german: lp: Format „application/postscript“ nicht
> unterstützt!)
> I'm printing from SuSE11.1, queues inserted in printers.conf manually,
> no PPD files in ppd-directory.
> 
> Two printers hl5270 and hl5270li with the same error. I stopped and
> restartet the debian print server, I rebootet. Nothing helped. I
> searched for hours! error.log displayed the unknown format error.
> 
> I saved /etc/cups/printers.conf , /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and
> /etc/cups/ppd/*. I've never edited other CUPS-files in my life. I purged
> cups and I re-installed. I played back the two files an the PPDs  - and
> all worked fine!! CUPS - non-deterministic or error prone?
> 
> BTW: CUPS did NOT work properly after play back of files, one execption:
> printing to hl5270li worked but not printing to hl5270! Same error:
> „application/postscript“ not supported. I exchanged the new and directly
> from Brother downloaded PPD file for HL-5270, I took the 3 years old PPD
> file for HL-5270 from Brother. And it worked! Printing was possible.
> After a hour I played back the other PPD-file and and this PPD works
> again, no error. Is CUPS 1.4.4-7  non-deterministic or error prone?
> 
> Ekkard
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair