Mark Trickett writes:

> Have continued looking hither and yon and cannot find what specifies
> invocation of filters and the like, cannot see where there might be a
> broken pipe.

If you mean the pipeline that cupsd builds to convert arbitrary input
data into something the printer can accept, it's a weighted DAG with
MIME types as nodes.

The terminals (i.e. nodes the printer accepts) are described in the PPD,
and are copied into printers.conf (which, despite being in /etc, is
constantly being rewritten by cupsd and belongs it /var).

The arcs are defined in /usr/share/cups/mime, as are the heuristics it
uses to choose a MIME type (it doesn't use libmagic / file (1)).

The whole setup is incredibly terrible and you're better off just using
a pencil.

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