[cups] Prints with PCL Commands in Body

[Jonathan Hannan]

---- Bryan Mason <bmason at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 13:23 -0400, Jonathan Hannan wrote:
> > We have an Oracle Database running on Solaris 10 and a CUPS 1.6
> > server running on RHEL 7. ...
> >
> > The issue that I'm facing is that when generating reports from
> > Oracle, the .out file contains PCL commands (s7B and (s0B for
> > formatting.  Printing this file retains the commands in the body of
> > the printed document instead of rendering the associated text as
> > bold.
> > 
> > ... I've tried a range of PPD files provided by openprinting.org for
> > both printers, installing the hplip and other drivers from the
> > openprinting repository, restoring the mime.types and mime.convs
> > files from backups, and even utilizing some of the 1.1 ppd files.
> > So far, we just cannot get either the printers or cups to recognize
> > the PCL commands in the file.
> 
> The simplest solution to this sort of situation is usually to set up
> "raw" print queues to handle these print jobs.  If you're using
> lpadmin to set up the print ques, don't specify a PPD file (with the
> "-P" option) or a model (with the "-m" option) on the command line (I
> think you can also specify "-m raw" on the command line).  If you're
> using the graphical utility, I believe there's usually a "RAW" option
> when you select the printer make/model (I'm not a graphical utility
> person myself, so I don't have much experience with it).
> 
> You can also test to see if this will work by just adding "-o raw" to
> the command line used to print the file.
> 
> CUPS doesn't filter documents to be printed in raw print ques, so the
> PCL commands that are put there by Oracle will be sent to the printer
> unchanged.
> 
> ~ Bryan
> 
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Once I assigned the "Raw Queue" to the printer, it was able to produce the report with the PCL in the file translated.  Now it's print "#PDF-BANNER Template default.pdf Show printer-name printer-info printer-location" across the top of the page and the characters per inch doesn't appear to be applied.