Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Steve Dowe <steve.dowe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 17:26, Tim Nicholson wrote:
> Printing from XP/W2k fails with an "unsupported format
> 'application/octet-stream'" error.
>
> I have tried turning filtering on and off, which only serves to let
> firefox print 2 lines of raw data and stop. The Win98 box prints happily
> in either mode!
>
>
> What next to try??
>
> --
> Tim Nicholson

Hi Tim

I think the answer might be that you haven't enabled the mime type 
"application/octet-stream" in the cups config files.  This problem has caught 
me out before.

In my version (SUSE 9.2), the files you would need to look at are:
/etc/cups/mime.convs
/etc/cups/mime.types

I expect it's the same across recent versions (8.2 onwards).

In mime.convs, edit as root and uncomment the line 
#application/octet-stream       application/vnd.cups-raw        0       -

In mime.types, uncomment
#application/octet-stream

Then issue 
rccups restart

..and hopefully it will work.

Steve