[cups.general] dotmatrix printing

[Jeremiah Elliott]

If I add -o PageSize=Custom.14x11in on the command line everything
works fine, but for some reason if I add it to lpoptions it is ignored
and I still have to add it on the command line. Also some applications
need be to pass document-fromat=text/plain. I am not sure why, because
from the command line It doesn't need this.


On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:17:51 -0500, Jeremiah Elliott <geek00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> error log (debug log level)
> http://www.sagusi.com/cups/error_log
> here is the file I was printing, but it does the same thing to all files.
> http://www.sagusi.com/cups/test
> 
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:57:01 +0200, Helge Blischke
> 
> 
> <h.blischke at srz-berlin.de> wrote:
> > 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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