raw printing in cups - print problems part 2

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Fri Apr 9 21:24:40 UTC 2004


For background info see here:

http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg01102.html

I'm having trouble printing to my FC2t2 machine from an XP machine.
It's not SElinux and I'm pretty sure it's not samba. In my cups error
log I am seeing this error:

E [09/Apr/2004:15:51:00 -0400] print_job: Unsupported format
'application/octet-stream'!
I [09/Apr/2004:15:51:00 -0400] Hint: Do you have the raw file printing
rules enabled?

When I rpm -q cups -i I find that this package was built this Monday.  I
first started having trouble with my printer on Tuesday or Wednesday.
( I use it only once or twice a week) I found a commented line in /etc/
cups/mime.types to allow application/octet-stream to print without
specifying the -oraw option. I uncommented it even though I do use the -
oraw option in my smb.conf.  Now it asks me if I have ESP Ghostscript
installed which I think is a dead end, because I haven't removed any
packages.

Here's the relevant line from /var/log/messages:

Apr  9 17:15:50 FC2 smbd[7995]: [2004/04/09 17:15:50, 0] printing/
print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(766)
Apr  9 17:15:50 FC2 smbd[7995]:   Unable to print file to usblp0 -
client-error-document-format-not-supported

Here's my printer entry form smb.conf:

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	browseable = yes
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
	guest ok = yes
	printable = yes
	print command = cupsdoprint -P'%p' -oraw %s
	use client driver = yes
	oplocks = no
	share modes = no

Everything used to work perfectly. I'm out ideas to fix this. If anyone
has some insight I would be very greatful.

Wayne Steenburg







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