[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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