Hello Trent,

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 11:57 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> 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 message is what I read on the CUPS web page in Iceweasel when I look
at the specific printer and the listings of jobs. That is why I quoted
it. As to quite where it occurs, I am still looking and thinking. I
suspect that the permissions may be an issue, but I need to know where
all the bits reside in the filesystem.

> 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).

There are networking issues. The printer is not fully configured, I can
ftp to the admin interface, but need to know more about some of the
network settings. That is part of the reason for the attachments.

> 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)).

Will look, and look again.

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

I cannot reproduce a colour photo with pencils, yet, nor do I expect to
learn to do so. I do have a preference for Postscript, with reason.

Regards,

Mark Trickett

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