[cups] problem with CUPS network printing and Zebra ZP505 label printer

[Brian Potkin]

On Wed 02 Aug 2017 at 02:34:36 -0700, Bond Masuda wrote:

> never mind. I figured it out.
> 
> it wasn't printing because the rastertolabel filter was being applied twice,
> once on the cups client side, and once more on the cups server side. i

Never to be recommended.

> couldn't just use a raw queue since that made the client side completely
> unaware of the printer's capabilities (things like printing on 4"x6"
> labels). so, instead, I edited the PPD file on the server side and just
> removed the cupsfilter line for rastertolabel so that there wouldn't be a
> second pass of the rastertolabel filter. the client side on linux at least,
> can setup the Zebra printer as usual without any special considerations.
> local printing will just have to go an extra step over the IPP interface on
> loopback instead of directly to USB.

Strange. If it matters, I'm on Debian; the difference between it
and Fedora cannot be that great. With a raw queue on the client
the output of 'lpoptions -p ... -l' shows options of the queue on
the server.

-- 
Brian.