On Friday 17 November 2006 17:03, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:42:24 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I rarely, but occasionally, need to print from XP. One printer is
> installed on an FC4 box and serves two other FC boxes plus a dual-boot
> laptop.
>
> Following Tim's instructions I used system-config-printer to install a
> raw queue. Now, if I print direct to the raw queue I get a basic,
> one-sided print, with few options. If I attempt to print to the other
> print-queues set up, which XP can see, the file leaves the laptop and is
> somehow diverted to the raw queue. Unfortunately, unlike the direct
> print, it just sits there, doing nothing and bunging up the works.
You might have already done this, but just in case...
In /etc/cups/mimes.convs and /etc/cups/mimes.types, you may need to
uncomment the lines related to raw printing.
Thanks, Akemi. That was probably part of the problem at least.
The current situation is that, thanks to Tim's off-list help, I have the
printing working perfectly. The problem is that neither he nor I are quite
sure why.
I uncommented this line (near the end of /etc/cups/mimes.convs
#application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0
but that didn't seem to make any difference. OTOH, that doesn't mean that it
has no significance.
I changed the loglevel to debug2
and I emptied the error log ' >/var/log/cups/error_log'.
That is, I think, all we have done, yet it now works! I find it hard to
believe that this would solve problems for someone else, but just in case I
thought I had better document it here.
Anne