Text on printout is stair stepped

Steve Roberts steven.e.roberts at lmco.com
Tue Jul 12 14:09:16 PDT 2005


> "Helge Blischke" wrote
> > Steve Roberts wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently installed a printer on a workstation and when I print a file <lp
> /etc/cups/printers.conf> to the printer, the text on the paper is stair-stepped. The first line
> starts at the top left which would be normal, then the second line starts printing one line
> down at the end of the first line, and so on. I don't see anything beyond the third line,
> because it goes off the page. Example:
> > > #abcdef
> > >        #
> > >         #123456
> > >
> > > I have reviewed the mimes.convs and mimes.types files and I just don't know I need to get
> the printout formatted properly.
> > >
> > > Can anyone shed light on this for me?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> >
> > For your brain-dead printer you obviously need a filter that converts LF to CRLF when
> printing plain
> > text. Search the CUPS newsgroups for the various proposals that have been posted here, or
> invent it
> > by yourself.
> >
> > Helge
> >
> > --
> > Helge Blischke
> > Softwareentwicklung
> > SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
> > http://www.srz.de
> See man   unix2dos   if your platform is un*x instead of windows-based,
> for a filter command to append carriage returns to each line.  It is a very
> minor shell script to write, if that  rpm package isn't included in your operating system
> distro.
>





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