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List:       cups-bugs
Subject:    Re: [cups.bugs] banner causes remote jobs to fail
From:       Helge Blischke <h.blischke () srz ! de>
Date:       2008-07-22 14:06:39
Message-ID: 6932-cups.bugs () news ! easysw ! com
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Terry jones wrote:
> > When I print a local job to my CUPS printer it prints fine with a banner. When I \
> > print from a remote machine and spool through the machine that printed fine with \
> > a banner for local jobs, the banner prints and the job does not. 
> > I am using the proper PPD file for the printer. I have tried editing the banner \
> > file and adding a ^D to the end. 
> > Am I the only one to use a CUPS device as a spool device?
> > 
> > tj
> > 
> 
> 
> Just a little more to add to this.
> 
> I was using a new Ricoh for the initial test so I thought maybe its the printer. So \
> I added an older printer on the CUPS machine. A lexmark 3455. Printed a test page \
> from the CUPS server. Test page printed great. Turned on standard banner page and \
> printed a test page form CUPS server. banner came out, test page came out. Great. \
> Sent a remote job to the print queue on the CUPS server. Banner page came out, no \
> print job. So I turned on HEX TRACE mode on the lexmark and sent the remote job to \
> the CUPS server again. Saw the hex code for the standard banner page then nothing. \
> No job data being sent whatsoever. 
> This is an out of the box RHEL 5.1 install with no updates added. I am beginning to \
> wonder if this is simply a bug in the version of CUPS that comes with RHEL 5.1? 
> tj
> 

I remember there were some issues with banner pages in CUPS 1.2.x.
Probably you should update to at least 1.3.5.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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