[cups] migrating printers

[ALi]

there is no mime.options or mime.* in /etc/cups directory


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:11 PM, ALi <osatien at gmail.com> wrote:

> and if i am not doing the conversion doing this? how can i remove this
> "default" behaviour???? to back to the old one? :S
>
> i dont think that there is some mime related files .... they are
> mime.types and what more????? printers configuration???
>
>
> <Printer 0000000110076>
> Info 0000000110076
> MakeModel EPSON AL-M2000 PS3 v3017.102
> DeviceURI lpd://url
> State Idle
> StateTime 1376397970
> Type 8425684
> Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
> Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops
> Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 -
> Accepting Yes
> Shared Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> OpPolicy default
> ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> </Printer>
>
> this is "OK" after remaking it
>
> and this has changed i dont know how
>
>
> <Printer 0000000150176>
> Info 0000000150176
> DeviceURI lpd://WX32710LABOR001.osakidetza.svs.local:/LPT1
> State Idle
> StateTime 1352362586
> Type 0
> Accepting Yes
> Shared Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> OpPolicy default
> ErrorPolicy retry-job
> </Printer>
>
> because yesterday it must stayed as  the other ( i didnt recheck :( )
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Helge Blischke <HelgeBlischke at web.de>wrote:
>
>> I guess your new (1.4.2) system differs from the old one (1.3.7) in that
>> the new one
>> uses the cups-filters package from openprinting, the main feature of
>> which is that
>> it defines PDF as the default data type for printing documents.
>> This change implies a heavy modification of the mime database (the files
>> xxx.types and
>> xxx.convs).
>> Could you please post the mime related files from both versions?
>>
>> Helge
>>
>> Am 13.03.2014 um 11:32 schrieb ALi:
>>
>>  we have around 6200 printers created  in the system and we are migrating
>>> them to a new one.
>>>
>>> In order to do it ok, we have copyed the printers.conf (plus printers ppd
>>> from one to another) however it didnt worked. The printers were created
>>> in
>>> a previous version and they were created with no filter and no type.
>>>
>>> In the new one, the new printers had type number and some kind of filter
>>> ..... so we recreated all printers (with an script that last 90 minutes
>>> to
>>> execute)  and again it appears to have some kind of printers created bad
>>> with type 0 ....
>>>
>>> what can cause this? or how can i disable the creation of type 0 or
>>> filter????
>>>
>>> the versions are 1.3.7 in the old one and 1.4.2 in the new one
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