[cups.general] dotmatrix printing

[Helge Blischke]

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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