[cups.general] Controlling font and print quality for

Tim Boring tboring at adw1.com
Wed May 11 05:25:38 PDT 2005


Hi, Johannes!

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:28 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On May 10 10:45 Tim Boring wrote (shortened):
> > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:58 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> > > On May 9 14:27 Tim Boring wrote (shortened):
> > > > We're using CUPS on a new Linux (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
> > > > v9) box
> > > 
> > > In this case you should have a support contract with Suse.
> > 
> > I bought a maintenance contract; is that considered the same thing as a
> > "support contract"?
> 
> As far as I know "maintenance" means "get updated packages for example
> to fix a security problem" but "support" means "get help to solve a
> problem for example how to set up something".
> The details depend on the particular contract in your particular case.
> Please refer to the matching contact address which is related to your
> particular contract for the details.

Thanks for the clarification.  I'll check my contract and see. 

[snip]
> 
> > I can use recode to
> > convert the ASCII text to printer-specific code, and it shows how to do
> > this for IBM PC.  I take it this means IBM emulation mode, is that
> > correct?
> 
> I think no.
> recode "lat1..ibmpc"
> does not create IBM printer-specific escape sequences.
> It creates IBM PC - i.e. MS DOS - specific character encoding.
> In particular it replaces "LF" (Unix like line break)
> with "CR+LF" (IBM PC - i.e. MS DOS - like line break)
> which is needed by many printers to print plain text.
> Otherwise the staircase effect may happen:
> first line
>           second line
>                      third line
> 

Okay, that makes sense.  I was hoping that was the case.  

Thanks for the helpful pointers.  I'll take a look at the documents,
play around with the System V script, and see what I can come up with.

Tim






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