Unable to print test page or even a text file

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Aug 22 01:00:14 PDT 2012


wunlung wrote:

>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have just installed CUPS 1.6.1 and setup a network printer.
>> However, I am unable to print any pages, I have tried to print a Test
>> Page, but it returns Unable to print test page:
>>     Unsupported format "application/vnd.cups-banner".
>>
>> Then, I tried to print a text file, but got
>> lp -d ISD09 test.txt
>> lp: Unsupported document-format "text/plain".
>>
>> Does anyone have clue in this? I am totally new to this.
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Log:
> D [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] Print-Job
> ipp://localhost:631/printers/ISD09 D [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] [Job
> ???] Auto-typing file... I [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] [Job ???] Request
> file type is application/vnd.cups-banner. D [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800]
> Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported format
> "application/vnd.cups-banner". E [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] Returning
> IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job
> (ipp://localhost:631/printers/ISD09) from localhost D
> [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients",
> busy="Active clients" D [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] [CGI] cgiSetVariable:
> MESSAGE="Unable to print test page" D [22/Aug/2012:11:29:22 +0800] [CGI]
> cgiSetVariable: ERROR="Unsupported format "application/vnd.cups-banner"."
> 
> /etc/cups$grep banner *
> mime.types:application/vnd.cups-banner  string(0,'#CUPS-BANNER')

What filters do you have installed?
The message "unsupported format ..." means that there is no valid filter 
chain to convert the source format to the printer's format.
Perhaps you need to install the cups-filters package from OpenPrinting.

Helge





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