I remember when I had a dot matrix printer and using it under Linux (think Slackware in the end of the 90s), CUPS wasn't around, and I just created a raw lpr queue. The printer was an Epson 9-pin dot matrix printer.
Is that no longer possible? " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:52 AM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > With a Raw Queue, there is no ppd. > > Howard > > On 10/7/19 1:51 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > > Can't you just import the PPDs from 16.04? > > > > > > " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, > > the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all > > irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom > > and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all > > damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG > > episode "The Drumhead" > > - Alex Smith > > - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:50 AM Howard White <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > The source of the issue seems to be CUPS which is more than just > Ubuntu. > > > > Howard > > > > On 10/7/19 1:47 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > > > Guess Ubuntu isn't the magic bullet people claim it to be? :P > > > > > > That still sucks! Maybe other distros have that support still? > > > > > > > > > " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > > censured, > > > the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us > all > > > irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as > > wisdom > > > and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, > > we’re all > > > damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star > > Trek: TNG > > > episode "The Drumhead" > > > - Alex Smith > > > - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:46 AM Howard White <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > > > Today's gripe is that Ubuntu 18.04 / CUPS (and others I am > quite > > > sure) [ > > > has | have ] dropped support for a Generid Printer, Raw > > Queue. This > > > means that the dot matrix printer (remember them?) that I use > > to print > > > two part checks does not play nice in Ubuntu 18.04. Still > > does in > > > 16.04. > > > > > > I'm looking at a GitHub entry dated March 19, 2018 where said > > > removal is > > > discussed in the Apple/CUPS dominion. 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