CUPS error under Fedora-8

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:29 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I get the following error in /var/log/cups/access_log
> when trying to print on my desktop from a laptop
> running Fedora-8:
> ---------------------------------
> 192.168.3.11 - - [12/Jan/2008:14:43:13 +0000] "POST /printers/lj HTTP/1.1"
> 200 159656 Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported
> ---------------------------------
> 
> Does anyone know what this means?
> I'm trying to print the test page from localhost:631 .
> There don't seem to be any other errors listed,
> though error_log does have an entry
> ---------------------------------
> I [12/Jan/2008:14:43:13 +0000] 
>         Hint: Do you have the raw file printing rules enabled?
> ---------------------------------
> 
> Should I enable "raw file printing rules"?
> Is this a change in Fedora-8?
> What exactly does "raw file printing" mean?
> 
> I can print on the same printer from another laptop running Fedora-7.
> I don't see any difference in the configuration of the two laptops
> though I haven't checked this thoroughly.
> 
> As always, any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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/etc/cups/mime.types
/etc/cups/mime.convs

see commented out sections that refer to raw printing (uncomment them),
restart cups.

Not at all new to F8, but if you have a print driver that wants to talk
directly to printer and not use postscript processing, raw is the
methodology (very typical for printing from Windows computers to Linux
shared printers).

Craig