Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Wed 22 Jun 2016 at 04:07:46 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > 1. Get the Samsung_M2020_Series.ppd from the
> > ULD tarball
> >
> > 2. Edit the *cupsFilters line in it to read
> >
> >       *cupsFilters:
> > "application.vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertoqpdl
> >
> >    or
> >
> >       *cupsFilters:
> > "application.vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstoqpdl
> >
> > 3. Put the PPD in /usr/share/ppd.
> 
> with:
> 
>     test-ppd-2 () {
>         sudo lpadmin  \
>              -p laser \
>              -v 'usb://Samsung/M2020%20Series?serial=08HYB8GGBB029CJ' \
>              -E \
>              -P /usr/share/ppd/Samsung_M2020_Series.ppd
>     }
> 
> I get
> 
>     lpr: Unsupported document-format "text/plain"
> 
> with *both* the raster and PS configs!

I don't think this idea is going to fly, at least not without more
work on the PPD and possibly on the printer driver itself. Accessing
the printer from the ARM device is probably best done through a CUPS
server on a i368/amd64 machine.