[cups.general] Problem printing Self-Test Pages

[Helge Blischke]

Bruno Martins wrote:

> Good morning everyone,
> 
> I'm being unable to print self-test pages on some printers, on my CUPS
> server (Debian 'squeeze' + Samba 3.5.6).
> 
> Error message I'm getting is the following (in /var/log/cups/error_log):
> E [25/Jan/2012:08:54:55 +0000] Returning IPP
> client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document
> (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Fotocopiadora) from localhost
> 
> And also this message in /var/log/cups/access_log:
> localhost - - [25/Jan/2012:08:54:55 +0000] "POST /printers/Fotocopiadora
> HTTP/1.1" 200 281 Send-Document client-error-document-format-not-supported
> 
> Through CUPS Web Administration Tool I get:
> Unable to send command to printer driver!
> Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-command'!
> 
> My printers.conf shows this info about the problematic printer:
> <Printer Fotocopiadora>
> Info SHARP AR-M165
> MakeModel Sharp AR-M165 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)
> DeviceURI socket://192.168.0.242
> State Idle
> StateTime 1327422479
> Type 8400916
> Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
> Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip
> Filter application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip
> Accepting Yes
> Shared Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> OpPolicy default
> ErrorPolicy retry-job
> Attribute marker-colors \#000000,#000000,#000000,#000000,#000000
> Attribute marker-levels 25,-1,-1,-1,-1
> Attribute marker-names Toner,Waste Toner,Photoconductive
> Drum,Developer,Fusing Unit Attribute marker-types
> toner,wasteToner,opc,developer,fuser Attribute marker-change-time
> 1327422479 </Printer>
> 
> Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this? I have read that it's
> related with a recent CUPS update, but it may be not.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bruno Martins

See if the filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtops
exists, and probably in one of your *.convs file the rule
applicataion/vnd.cups-command  application/postscript nn commandtops
where nn is an integer around 33, is missing.

Helge