IPP printers don't work with CUPS after update?
Scott Sharkey
ssharkey at linuxunlimited.com
Thu Aug 10 13:44:04 UTC 2006
gborzi wrote:
> I have the same problem with my Samsung ML-1520. It is connected through
> usb to my desktop, and my laptop is connected to the desktop with a
> cross cable. After the latest upgrade I haven't been able to print from
> the laptop. Sending something to the printer resulted in the printing of
> an error page. I have found a workaround for this problem in the forums,
> i.e. I put a client.conf file in /etc/cups with the line > ServerName <my print server> and restarted cupsys. Before this I made a little test. With the
> printer turned off, I send the same pdf file for printing from the
> laptop and the desktop, then looked at /var/spool/cups. I noticed that
> the temporary files are different. The local one is the same pdf file I
> sent for printing, the remote one is identified by "file" as "HP Printer
> Job Language data".
Yeah, I found this out too. I had a "raw" queue set up on the print
server for some of my Windows boxes... printing to the Raw queue works,
while printing to the standard queue prints PCL commands. This
DEFINITELY is not how it worked in the past. I suspect this is a bug,
but I'm not sure.
-Scott
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