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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:07:40 -0700
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Having trouble printing to my HP OJ Pro 8600 all-in-one
Message-ID:  <a50412f9-8b89-e98b-5b1a-d77d8b1711a5@dreamchaser.org>
In-Reply-To: <686b9894-f67c-d459-4a72-16df5641a887@mahan.org>
References:  <b63c46fd-b586-bab9-f053-13fbc2e515cc@mahan.org> <31b7b3c7-326f-87e2-2986-f06280057c46@dreamchaser.org> <bb10ba5e-7850-a87e-ba08-015911f7d679@mahan.org> <98dafc2e-0584-2521-d766-8fb3da449c2b@dreamchaser.org> <686b9894-f67c-d459-4a72-16df5641a887@mahan.org>

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On 11/25/16 20:24, Patrick Mahan wrote:
> On 11/25/16 6:40 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> On 11/25/16 16:46, Patrick Mahan wrote:
>>> On 11/23/16 8:50 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
>>>> On 11/22/16 21:22, Patrick Mahan wrote:
>>>>> All,
...
>>>>> I just update my binary packages (after much much pain) since they were
>>>>> so out of date.  One of the items that seemed to drastically was CUPS.
>>>>> I had CUPS-2.0.1 and now have CUPS-2.2.1, but it seems I have lost all
>>>>> printing ability.  I re-installed all available cups packages (except client,
>>>>> can't see where that exists) along with gutenprint and hplip.  I see on
>>>>> the ports page that there a secondary package called hplip-plugins but
>>>>> pkg will not install it as it says it cannot find any package matching
>>>>> that name.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cups sees the printer, it seems up, but when I attempt to print a test
>>>>> page, I get the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Unable to print test page:
>>>>>
>>>>>           Unsupported format "text/plain".
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking in /usr/local/etc/cups and I don't see any definition for
>>>>> "text/plain".  Also, the cups filter in the .ppd for the printer
>>>>> is set to "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 hpcups", but I can find
>>>>> no definition of vnd.cups-raster nor hpcups.

Are you saying you have a mime.types under /usr/local/etc/cups?
These should be in /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
What are the permissions on it?
$ ls -l /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6743 Nov  7 08:40 /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types



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