On 20-Apr-2017, Brian Potkin wrote:
> Ben - a request. Bug reports below a certain size come through to
> debian-printing and I get them by SMTP. It is better to compress
> log files, otherwise I have to go looking for the CC.
I'll try to remember that.
And while we're at it: Thank you for putting in the careful effort to
troubleshoot this problem with me!
> More testing, I'm afraid.
Bring it on :-)
> Take the file in your $HOME produced by testq. The file utility should
> identify it as "HP Printer Job Language data".
$ sudo file ~/testq-out
/home/bignose/testq-out: HP Printer Job Language data
> Send it directly to the printer with
>
> cat <printer-ready_file> > /dev/usb/lp0
There is no such device node:
$ find /dev -name 'lp0'
$ ls /dev/usb/lp0
ls: cannot access '/dev/usb/lp0': No such file or directory
> Also send the same file with
>
> lp -d <SCX-4623 Series queue> -o raw <printer-ready_file>
=====
$ sudo systemctl restart cups
$ lpstat -a 'SCX-4623-Series'
SCX-4623-Series accepting requests since Fri 21 Apr 2017 06:00:09 AEST
$ lp -d 'SCX-4623-Series' -o raw ~/testq-out
request id is SCX-4623-Series-73 (1 file(s))
$ lpstat -a 'SCX-4623-Series'
SCX-4623-Series accepting requests since Fri 21 Apr 2017 06:00:09 AEST
$ lpstat -o 'SCX-4623-Series'
SCX-4623-Series-68 bignose 1024 Thu 20 Apr 2017 20:39:29 AEST
SCX-4623-Series-71 bignose 1024 Thu 20 Apr 2017 20:51:12 AEST
SCX-4623-Series-72 bignose 95232 Fri 21 Apr 2017 05:56:42 AEST
SCX-4623-Series-73 bignose 95232 Fri 21 Apr 2017 06:00:24 AEST
$ sudo systemctl stop cups
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> Does it print?
No. The resulting error log (compressed) is attached.
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