[cups] Correct Mimetype For Raw Printing Using ipptool

Matt Andrews mattandrews at massey.com.au
Wed May 30 04:22:29 PDT 2018


As long it can work somehow.

It’s possibly important to be able to use preformatted data. In our case,
the label printers are network connected, no usb.

Raw printing should be easy.

On Wed, 30 May 2018 at 18:52, Pförtsch, Franz <Franz.Pfoertsch at brose.com>
wrote:

> Hello Matt,
>
> I had a similar issue.
>
> So I extended my mime.type/mime.conf for raw printing of preformatted
> datastream.
>
> I opend a issue on github,
>
> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5294
>
> but Michael closed this issue with something like
>   raw printing is stupid.
>
> Regards
> Franz
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups <cups-bounces+franz.pfoertsch=brose.com at cups.org> On Behalf Of
> Matt Andrews
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 12:33 AM
> To: cups at cups.org
> Subject: [cups] Correct Mimetype For Raw Printing Using ipptool
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to send raw text data to a Zebra label printer.  The printer is
> network connected and I'm running CUPS 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> Printing is really easy using lp -oraw, the labels print perfectly, but
> when trying to send test ipp messages using ipptool, the printer will only
> print the actual text of the document.
>
> I'm using ipptool to test the printer locally as ipp messages will
> eventually be arriving from remote locations.
>
> Currently I'm using application/octet-stream as the mimetype, but this
> does not work.
>
> What is going on when you print with lp -oraw and how can this be
> replicated with ipptool?
>
> Does it require configuration of raw.types or raw.convs in /etc/cups?
>
> Been trying to figure this one out for a while.  Any tips greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Matt Andrews
>
> 0400 990 131
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