On Tuesday 18 January 2005 21:22, Grant wrote: > I have a printer that doesn't have Linux drivers, but I know people > are able to print to it from within perl by referencing the device > directly. Would it be possible to print to this printer from within > Firefox? I see that you can specify the exact command Firefox > executes for printing, but I'm not sure what that would be in this > situation. Is there a good command-line tool for sending a binary > image file to a device (USB printer) for printing? From the looks of > dmesg, the printer is detected and ready to roll.
Are you using CUPS? If not, do! If you are running KDE you can use "kprinter" for that purpose (also in non-KDE apps). I am sure there is a similar solution for GNOME. I you don't run either of them you can still send the image to cupsd on port 631 and let CUPS handle how to treat it. Uwe -- Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- [email protected] mailing list
