Re: CUPS

On 7/27/14, Walter Alejandro Iglesias <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Only noticed this because just replaced our ubuntu print server with
>> slackware (all other serves are slackware anyway so why not)  but for
>> the life of me it wont print .conf files,
>> sits there forever saying Idle - "Sending data to printer."  but it
>> clearly is not
>> hell the thing wont even print the test page "no profiles specified in
>> PPD"
>> even copied the types and convs files from  .../share/cups to
>> /etc/cups, no difference.
>>
>
> I am pretty sure that whatever your problem is it has nothing to do with
> your prejudice about antiquated or modern software.
>
> It sounds to me that you chose the wrong driver or the driver you need
> is not present in Slackware by default (Ubuntu, with its *friendly*
> approach take care of that details for you).
>

Nope, the driver (from guttenprint) is correct, if I print a document
from openoffice, it works perfect, I can even print an email from
webmail in chrome,  but try anything else, like from text editors, or
other softwares, nope, even a lp /etc/somefile.txt  lpr -l
/etc/ntp.conf on the print server itself = no go, and again test pages
dont from the print server, so I'm happy the driver is right, since it
is a perfect match to my printer.

The *only* thing I see different, and I will test out when I get in,
is in ubuntu's version they add in
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstocanonij
Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops

in the  printer.conf file printer section,  this is *not* added in
slackwares version, no mater what I tried.


also
 Willy, unable to build 1.7 on that machine, I think its a 64/32
conflict with slack 14.0, since i can build your package on my 32 bit
pc fine.