CUPS and

[Helge Blischke]

Ryan Hobbs wrote:
> I am looking for a way to move out from under the LPRng package. I don't know a whole lot about it, other than people stay away from it and the linux printing how-to does not recommend using it. We are currently using special printer control commands using the Z Control File entry that passes to the ifhp filter. Mainly (and I believe *ONLY*) we use this for is printing text in a condensed format were the pitch has been altered from the default.
> 
> I.e. normal print command would be:  lpr -Phplj4
> while the condensed would be: lpr -Phplj4 -Zpitch=16.66
> 
> Can someone answer me if CUPS can support this? Out of the box, by creating a new filter, etc. etc.

look at the CUPS supplied options for text printing like cpi and lpi.

Helge

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