[cups.general] Problem printing Self-Test Pages

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Jan 25 08:17:45 PST 2012


That's because this is a Ghostscript-based driver and not a real PostScript printer...

(so never mind about the bug - the normal test page is what you will use for this kind of driver...)

On Jan 25, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Bruno Martins wrote:

> Hi Helge,
> 
> It works, but it doesn't print information regarding to what we call a "self-test page", just some numbers and the word Postcript.
> 
> Thanks for your cooperation.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bruno Martins
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf Of Helge Blischke
> Sent: quarta-feira, 25 de Janeiro de 2012 14:53
> To: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] Problem printing Self-Test Pages
> 
> Bruno Martins wrote:
> 
>> Hello there,
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply!
>> 
>> File exists:
>> root at sputnik:/usr/share/cups/mime# ls -l 
>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtops -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9444 Nov 28 
>> 16:12 /usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtops
>> 
>> Also...
>> root at sputnik:/usr/share/cups/mime# cat mime.convs | grep vnd
>> application/pdf                 application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> pdftops
>> application/postscript          application/vnd.cups-postscript 65     
>> pstops
>> application/vnd.hp-HPGL         application/postscript          66     
>> hpgltops
>> image/gif                       application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/png                       application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/jpeg                      application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/tiff                      application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-bitmap                  application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-photocd                 application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-portable-anymap         application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-portable-bitmap         application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-portable-graymap        application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-portable-pixmap         application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-sgi-rgb                 application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-xbitmap                 application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> image/x-xpixmap                 application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> #image/x-xwindowdump            application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> #imagetops
>> image/x-sun-raster              application/vnd.cups-postscript 66     
>> imagetops
>> application/vnd.cups-banner     application/postscript          33     
>> bannertops
>> image/gif                       application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/png                       application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/jpeg                      application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/tiff                      application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-bitmap                  application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-photocd                 application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-portable-anymap         application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-portable-bitmap         application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-portable-graymap        application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-portable-pixmap         application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-sgi-rgb                 application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-xbitmap                 application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> image/x-xpixmap                 application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> #image/x-xwindowdump            application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> #imagetoraster
>> image/x-sun-raster              application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> imagetoraster
>> application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raster     100    
>> pstoraster
>> application/octet-stream        application/vnd.cups-raw        0       -
>> 
>> Does this helps you helping me? ;-)
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Bruno Martins
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On 
>> Behalf Of Helge Blischke Sent: quarta-feira, 25 de Janeiro de 2012 
>> 12:27
>> To: cups at easysw.com
>> Subject: Re: [cups.general] Problem printing Self-Test Pages
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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> 
> To your mime.convs, add the line
> application/vnd.cups-command     application/postscript          33      commandtops (or add a file, say, repair.convs, to either /etc/cups or /usr/share/cups/mime) and try again.
> 
> Helge
> 
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