Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text
Date	2016-01-02 21:10 +0100
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On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 13:34:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote:

> Brian writes:
> > The question is whether the gray bar is an artifact produced by CUPS
> > (unlikely), by cups-filters (possible, but unlikely), the Gutenprint
> > driver (could be) or the printer (one never knows). Or it could be
> > part of the original file. We assume the file is something produced by
> > a text editor, vim etc.
> 
> The file is:
> 
> qwertyuiop
> asdfghjkl
> 
> Produced by vi.

Simple enough to be confident it is a text file.

[Snip]

> Ok:
> toncho/~ lp -d HP5M-test1 text
> Second LED comes on, first LED blinks a few times, second LED goes off.
> Nothing prints, though the Cups Web interface says it did.

For why CUPS thinks it has done its job you would look at the error log,
It might also say why it doesn't print.

I'm a little surprised this didn't print. The print queue I suggested
can also be set up from the web interface at localhost:631.

> > You could also try
> > lpadmin -p HP5M-test2 -v <URI> -E -m lsb/usr/cupsfilters/textonly.ppd
> 
> Ok:
> toncho/~ lpadmin -p HP5M-test2 -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -E -m lsb/usr/cupsfilters/textonly.ppd
> toncho/~ lp -d HP5M-test2 text
> Produces same result as above except that both LEDs stay on.
> 
> I wrote:
> > There is no difference in using lp or lpr.
> > ...
> > Yes.  That's unimportant.
> 
> Brian writes:
> > Not for the people who think there is a significant difference.
> 
> In this context it is unimportant.

It is unimportant in any context. Why introduce it in the first place?

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Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 17:20 +0100
  Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 17:40 +0100
    Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 18:20 +0100
  Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 18:10 +0100
    Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 19:00 +0100
      Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 19:50 +0100
        Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 20:40 +0100
          Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-02 21:00 +0100
            Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 21:30 +0100
              Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 21:50 +0100
          Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 21:10 +0100

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