[cups.general] dotmatrix printing

[Helge Blischke]

Please post (an URL to) a sample file.

Helge


Jeremiah Elliott wrote:
> 
> ok, I ended up going with the epson 9pin dotmatrix driver. I had to
> work with the cpi and lpi options to get it working with some of our
> forms, but it wasnt' that big of a deal.
> The current problem however, is that I am only getting the first page,
> followed by a blank page for all documents.  There is nothing helpfull
>  in error_log. If I do a 'lpoptions -p<queue>' I get
> 
> job-sheets=none,none page-bottom=36 cpi=10.5 lpi=6.5 scaling=100
> page-right=36 page-left=36 wrap=true page-top=36
> 
> which is exactly what I would expect.
> Any ideas?
> -Jeremiah
> 
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:10:38 +0200, Helge Blischke
> <h.blischke at srz-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Jeremiah Elliott wrote:
> > >
> > > I have several dot matrix printers that I had been printing to as a
> > > raw printer. I had been using unix2dos to convert the end-of-lines.
> > > i.e.
> > > unix2dos|lpr -P<printer> <file>
> > > After upgrading to cups-1.1.17-13.3.12 from readhat this no longer
> > > works. I have to <ctl><c> after trying it. strace output didnt' help
> > > me any.
> > >
> > > The epson 9 pin driver works, but I had been using raw printing
> > > because the epson driver is a lot slower and the fonts dont' look as
> > > clean.
> > >
> > > My question is, am I better off just joing with the epson driver, or
> > > are there other options other than unix2dos?
> > > -Jeremiah
> >
> > Wrap your unix2dos utility by a script that conforms to the CUPS filter
> > specification (env vars, command line args etc.) and insert the line
> >
> > *cupsFilter: "text/plain 0 name_of_your_filter"
> >
> > Helge
> >
> >

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