Printing to a Dot-Matrix Printer

[Helge Blischke]

Donald Johnson wrote:
> 
> When I send a print job to the printer, it will work as long as I don't send
> Chr(27)+Chr(15)
> 
> This should set the printer to condensed print...
> 
> The printer is set up as Raw...
> 
> Additional Info...
> If the Esc SI sequence is sent to CUPS, then the job does not even show up
> as being sent to the printer...  I seems as though it is just thrown away...
> 
> When I do not send the Esc SI sequence, the job prints and it shows up in
> the printed job list...
> 
> How am I suppose to set up CUPS so that I can use the ESC/P codes to control
> the printer...
> 
> The print job is being generated by a DOS application

Look into your error log for a message indicating CUPS could not
determine the
data type. Chr(27) does not belong to what is defined as "printable" in
mime.types.

Helge

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