[cups] Printing from mobile 'phone.

[Alec Garner]

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On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Douglas Kosovic <doug at uq.edu.au> wrote:

> It's not clear what you are using on Android, are you referring to the
> "CUPS Printing" print service for Android 4.4 and later ? i.e. the
> following :
>    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.
> benoitduffez.cupsprint
>    https://github.com/BenoitDuffez/AndroidCupsPrint
>
>
> Doug
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cups-bounces at cups.org [mailto:cups-bounces at cups.org] On Behalf Of
> > Jim Ford
> > Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2016 10:40 PM
> > To: cups at cups.org
> > Subject: [cups] Printing from mobile 'phone.
> >
> > My printer is attached to the USB port on my Tomato router and I print
> to it
> > from my wireless connected laptop running Xubuntu.
> >
> > The printer is set up with the address: socket://192.168.1.1:9100 and
> the
> > driver: Canon PIXMA iP7250 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11
> >
> > The printer shows up with the above settings in the CUPS web interface
> > localhost:631 on the laptop. It prints OK.
> >
> > I'm trying to print from my Android 'phone, using the CUPS server on my
> laptop,
> > with the IP address of the laptop, port 631. The 'phone find the printer
> OK and I
> > can print to it - but only in the CUPS default media size setting - A4.
> Selecting
> > different media sizes from the 'phone app makes no difference. I don't
> have this
> > problem printing from the laptop.
> >
> > The author of the 'phone app suggested that I used tcpdump to see what's
> > happening. I did this, and printing from the 'phone app showed that the
> default
> > media size was passed. I compared this with using tcpdump when printing
> from
> > the laptop with a non-default paper size. It printed OK, but the tcpdump
> didn't
> > show any printer activity (but maybe it was encrypted, so I could not
> see it).
> >
> > I'm stumped and don't know where to look next - and would be grateful
> for any
> > suggestions, please!
> >
> > Jim
>
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