[cups] cups 1.6.3 does not print test-page correctly

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Mar 22 11:49 Robert Felber wrote (excerpt):
> In use is cups-1.6.3-26.el7.x86_64 on a CentOS 7.3
> It is a RAW-printer connected to a Windows-Shared printer.
>
> The ouput of the test-page contains just the line
>
> #PDF-BANNER
>                             Template default-testpage.pdf

Perhaps the section
"CUPS Version Upgrade to 1.7" in
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/
could also be useful for your case?

It reads in particular:
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CUPS banners and the CUPS test page are no longer
supported since CUPS >= 1.6. The banners and the
test page from cups-filters must be used.
The CUPS banner files in /usr/share/cups/banners/ and
the CUPS testpage /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
(which is also a CUPS banner file type) are no longer
provided in the cups RPM because they do no longer work
since CUPS >= 1.6 (see http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4120 )
because there is no longer a filter that can convert the
CUPS banner files. Since CUPS >= 1.6 only the banner
files and testpage in the cups-filters package work via
the cups-filters PDF workflow and the cups-filters
package also provides the matching bannertopdf filter.
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The old link http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4120 therein
is nowadays https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/4120


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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