See below for answer...
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 9 20:42:46 2002
> From: "Adam Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Print filter for IBM proprinter emulation
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:44:26 +0930
>
> I copied the gs_epsonc printer setup in the ifhp.conf file and created an
> ibmpro entry that looks like:
>
> [ ibmpro ]
> tc=pcl_gs
> gs_device=ibmpro
> gs_options=
>
> So all I changed there was the gs_device to ibmpro, which gs lists as a
> supported output device. When I print a text file using lpr, the PCL
> initialization string is printed then the rest of the text file. An IBM
> proprinter does not know about PCL at all so it will just print out the PCL
> codes like they are part of the text file.
>
> What we want is to send the initialization string at the start of the print
> job:
>
> \022\033A\014\033CB\033F\033H\033W0\033T\033-0\033O\033R
Set:
pcl_init = \022\033A\014\033CB\033F\033H\033W0\033T\033-0\033O\033R
>
> and to be able to set the pitch, right margin and pagelength with -Z
> options. I have the commands that need to be sent to set these parameters.
>
> What I tried doing was adding the following commands to the ifhp.conf file:
>
> ## START IBM config - ajf
>
> ibm_user_opts=[
> pitch5 pitch6 pitch9 pitch10 pitch12 pitch17
> ]
>
> ibm_pitch5=\022\033W1\c
> ibm_pitch6=\022\033:\033W1\c
> ibm_pitch9=\022\017\033W1\c
> ibm_pitch10=\022\033W0\c
> ibm_pitch12=\022\033:\033W0\c
> ibm_pitch17=\022\017\033W0\c
>
> ibm_init=\022\033A\014\033CB\033F\033H\033W0\033T\033-0\033O\033R
Make these:
pcl_user_opts=[
pitch5 pitch6 pitch9 pitch10 pitch12 pitch17
]
pcl_pitch5=\022\033W1\c
pcl_pitch6=\022\033:\033W1\c
pcl_pitch9=\022\017\033W1\c
pcl_pitch10=\022\033W0\c
pcl_pitch12=\022\033:\033W0\c
pcl_pitch17=\022\017\033W0\c
pcl_init=\022\033A\014\033CB\033F\033H\033W0\033T\033-0\033O\033R
>
> ## END IBM config - ajf
>
> [ ibmpro ]
> status@
> sync@
> pagecount@
> pjl@
> pcl
> ps@
> text@
> ibm
> file_output_match = [
> *text* ibm
> ]
And make this:
[ ibmpro ]
status@
sync@
pagecount@
pjl@
pcl
ps@
text@
file_output_match = [
*text* pcl
]
>
> I've only tried the pitch commands for now - I'll add the others when I get
> this working.
>
> At the moment when the ifhp filter is piped a file it's returning nothing on
> the output. If I change the file_output_match to *text* raw, then it just
> prints out the raw input file as expected. I'm running the ifhp filter from
> the command line as:
>
> /usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp -T model=ibmpro < /tmp/testfile
>
> >From here I don't know where to go. Can ifhp handle adding additional
> command sets, or should I be writing a shell script as a print filter and
> using that instead of ifhp?
>
> Hope that all made sense! :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com)
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