Sending PCL5 commands

[George Stroh]

> On 01/02/07, George Stroh <strohg at owc.edu> wrote:
> > I need help duplicating our current mainframe printing system using CUPS. We send a plain text file along with PCL5 formatting commands to a printer. How can we do this with CUPS?
>
> Unlike lpd, CUPS considers such files raw and not plain text. So
> normally you would use
> "lpr -l" or "lp -o raw"
>
> That means if your files really are plain text interspersed with PCL
> commands (by which I mean they use Unix linefeeds), you might need to
> add extra PCL commands to turn on auto carriage returns, or change the
> app to output DOS-style linefeeds.
>
> --
> cheers,
> -ambrose
>
Thanks ambrose.