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
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