Testing IPP Printing with ipptool
Solution 1
Edit a copy of your print-job.test
file and save it as senloe---print-job.test
.
Your edit should replace the variables in the following two lines with hard-coded values:
ATTR mimeMediaType document-format $filetype
FILE $filename
Replace them, for example with:
ATTR mimeMediaType document-format text/plain
FILE senloe---print-job.test
This should send your file senloe---print-job.test
as a plain text file to printers.
You'll need to use the following command line (assuming you have CUPS installed locally):
ipptool -v -t ipp://localhost:631/printers/your-real-printername \
./senloe---print-job.test
You should see something like the following output:
"./senloe---print-job.test":
Print-Job:
attributes-charset (charset) = utf-8
attributes-natural-language (naturalLanguage) = en
printer-uri (uri) = ipp://localhost:631/printers/ubuquitech
requesting-user-name (nameWithoutLanguage) = senloe
document-format (mimeMediaType) = text/plain
copies (integer) = 1
Print file using Print-Job [PASS]
RECEIVED: 171 bytes in response
status-code = successful-ok (successful-ok)
attributes-charset (charset) = utf-8
attributes-natural-language (naturalLanguage) = en
job-uri (uri) = ipp://localhost:631/jobs/24
job-id (integer) = 24
job-state (enum) = pending
job-state-reasons (keyword) = none
If this works, the following should also work, now using the original test file print-job.test
(which contains the variables) again, and using your edited senloe---print-job.test
as the file to be printed:
ipptool -v -t -f senloe---print-job.test \
ipp://localhost:631/printers/your-real-printername \
./print-job.test
Solution 2
Try this line:
c:\...>ipptool -vt -f [name of your URF file] ipp://name.local.:631/ipp/printer print-job.test
and have the URF file in the same location as your .test
file. Also, it is recommended to have the ipptool
in the same location as well.
senloe
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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senloe over 1 year
I'm trying to send an IPP print job using the ipptool. Using the sample .test files, I can send commands to the printer, but I am unable to successfully use the print-job.test file.
Here's an example using ipptool.
c:\...>ipptool -v ipp://name.local.:631/ipp/printer print-job.test ipptool: Filename "$filename" on line 21 cannot be read. ipptool: Filename mapped to "".
It looks like it's failing resolving the variable $filename within the test file so I attempted to hardcode this value in the test file. In this case I get no error, but still no print.
Does anybody have any experience using ipptool to test ipp printing?
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Toto over 6 yearsYou could add some explanations.