[cups.general] Re: Forms or Template printing ...

C.Lee Taylor leet at leenx.co.za
Thu May 13 09:18:49 PDT 2004


Greetings ...

	Again, thanks for the quick responce ...

>>        The problem we are seeing, is that nothing can touch job size of a
>> dotmatrix printer.  With a dotmatrix print job of 2K, our new Laser
>> print jobs are 500K, which, as you could image is killing our remote
>> site links.

>Why not write a dotmatrix printer emulation in PostScript? Then you
> would retain your tiny file sizes, and enhancing htis emulation for bar code printing
> should not be an issue.

	Unless one is not a programmer, plus the big downside, is that I will have to create all my reports, which the Windows application that this is for, I would get no support.

	I know, it's a bummer! ... How do the big printer boys do this sort of thing with there printers and hard drives and forms and templates?

Mailed
Lee







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