[cups] Set paper type on outgoing print jobs

Andre Esser andre.esser at geneity.co.uk
Fri Feb 26 09:42:00 PST 2016


On 2016-02-26 17:33, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
>> Am 26.02.2016 um 17:58 schrieb Andre Esser:
>>
>> We're using a Xerox Phaser 7800dn with CUPS 1.7.2 (Bit long in the
>> tooth, I know. Will upgrade if required to fix this problem).
>>
>> If our printer receives a job without a paper type specification, it
>> refuses to print it as it doesn't have paper of the type 'Unspecified'
>> available. If the print job specifies the paper type as 'Plain' the
>> printing works fine.
>>
>> So my question is, is there a way to configure CUPS to set paper type
>> to 'Plain' if it isn't already defined in the printjob. Or as plan B,
>> is there a way to set a 'Plain' paper type on all outgoing print jobs?
> 
> if your use the PPD supplied by Xerox, you may edit the line of the PPD
> beginning with *JobPatchFile 1:
> by inserting
> /MediaType (Unspecified)
> just before the „>> put“.
> 
> If you user some other PPD; please post it to me off the list.

That worked a treat, thank you so much Helge!

Andre



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