[ale] CUPS Test Print Generation

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 12:07:40 EDT 2010


can you turn on job archiving and capture from that?

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

>  Under CUPS 1.4.4, CUPS apparently doesn't keep a "testprint.ps"
> hanging around and instead apparently generates one on the fly using
> instructions that read as follows:
>
> #CUPS-BANNER
> Show printer-name printer-info printer-location printer-make-and-model
> printer-driver-name printer-driver-version paper-size imageable-area
> Header Printer Test Page
> Footer Printer Test Page
> Notice This test page was produced by CUPS 1.4.4.
> Image images/cups.png
> Image images/color-wheel.png
>
> I want to capture the Postscript file that these instructions generate
> for a given print device (in this case, a label printer).  Anyone know
> how to get there from here?
>
> - Jeff
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