Printing to a Dot-Matrix Printer

[Donald Johnson]

There was nothing in the error log about the print job...

I got it to work by modifying the mime.types file

I added:
   string(0,<1B>P) \
   string(0,<1B><0F>) \

to the application/vnd.cups-raw section right after    string(0,<1B>@) \

"Helge Blischke" <H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de> wrote in message
news:4140525D.19DE at srz-berlin.de...
> 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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> Helge Blischke
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