cups and lp (cups lp)

arnaud ext.teamlog.valeix at sncf.fr
Tue Aug 22 22:34:41 PDT 2006


Hello

I try these, but it doesn't work more better.
In fact, the lp without the "-o raw" parameter doesn't work
and I need to indicate this parameter for print.

Thank's anyway.




> arnaud <ext.teamlog.valeix at sncf.fr> wrote (Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:16):
>
>
> What distro/version do you use?
>
> > text/plain              application/vnd.cups-raw        0       -
>
> This line means to CUPS: "If you receive a file that you autotype as
> mime type 'text/plain' -- don't touch it and don't filter it. Send it
> directly to the printer instead, just as it is."
>
> Change that line to read:
>
>   text/plain       application/postscript     33      texttops
>
> This will mean to CUPS: "If you receive a file that you autotype as
> mime type 'text/plain' -- use the texttops filter to convert it into
> mime type 'application/postscript', and then hand it over to the
> next filter in the chain (likely to be 'pstops')..."
>
> In this case your "cpi" and/or "lpi" parameters will be processed
> and honored by the texttops filter.
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt





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