maxim wexler wrote:
What I would try is to set up another printer queue,
using "Raw Printer"
- this makes cups get out of the way as much as it
can (even more than
-l would do.)
Not sure, but if you mean
sarawak heathen # cat cups_error > /dev/lp0
then the result is as before: some noise followed by a
blinking trouble light.
Try
cat cups_error | unix2dos >/dev/lp0
If that works, then a raw queue in CUPS will work as well. Set up a new
queue in CUPS and define the printer make as Raw and the model as Raw
Queue. Then you can use
cat cups_error | unix2dos | lpr -Praw_queue
and it should work. The only thing that worries me is that perhaps you
wouldn't get a form feed at the end of the print job to eject the page.
Somewhere or other I have a little C program I wrote to handle all of
this conversion - I'll send it if I find it.
It does seem that CUPS has an "everything should be Postscript" view of
the world and does not handle plain text printing as smoothly as it
should (instead it converts text to postscript and then converts that to
raster for printing.) It doesn't bother me, but I don't have your
printing needs. You *could* use the standard CUPS
text->postscript->raster functionality, but I expect that it would be a
*lot* slower than plain text printing. Perhaps you should try lprng
instead of CUPS as your print spooler - it may be a better option for
what you're trying to do.
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