Printing escape sequence to format font size

Aldrin Labissiere alabissiere at lbi-group.com
Tue Sep 19 06:17:12 PDT 2006


> Hi,
>
> On 18/09/06, Aldrin Labissiere <alabissiere at lbi-group.com> wrote:
> > Someone told me that Linux is now using CUPS and CUPS doesn't print escape sequence. What can I do to fix disk?
>
> If your printout has escape sequences, your "print command" should be
> "lpr -l" (raw mode) rather than just "lpr".
>
> If your application does not have an option for you to set the print
> command, and it does not use the "-l" flag, then there's something
> wrong with the app, and it should be fixed; even with the real lpr, it
> has never been safe to print binary data with just "lpr", even though
> some lpr filters have some semi-automatic detection in place.
> --
> cheers,
> -ambrose
>
Thanks Ambrose,
It's still not working but at least I have the first line printed. I use to print with the lp (cat check.txt|lp -dprinter) command and it's working fine with redhat7. Now in Redhat ES4, using the same command, I only get an empty page... If you have any other idea, I need help...

Aldrin





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