[cups] Unable to use raw and InputSlot options together

[Hal Maner]

Michael, thank you for your answer.  I wish there were a way to use existing system commands to accomplish this - I will have difficult time explaining this to the users that their 20-year old server is able to get this done with built in commands (qprt and lp on AIX) yet we cannot do it with Linux in the year 2016 without writing some special code/filters...

We have not worked with creating special PPD filters before and I have no idea how easy or difficult/time consuming this may be.  Is there a document you can point me to on this?  

Thanks again,

Hal Maner


-----Original Message-----
From: cups-bounces at cups.org [mailto:cups-bounces at cups.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweet
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:08 PM
To: The CUPS user discussion list.
Subject: Re: [cups] Unable to use raw and InputSlot options together

Hal,

> On Oct 4, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Hal Maner <hmaner at msystemsintl.com> wrote:
> ...
> So, how can I use -o raw *and* be able to choose the correct tray for the printer with -o InputSlot=HighCapacity?


You can't.

You can, however, associate the "raw" PCL text (add a .types file that defines a MIME type) with a special filter in the PPD so that it applies the PPD options for you.

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