Printer initialization String Eatten?!?!

Darek triforcian at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 12:02:05 PDT 2008


Could it be that the escape sequences changed so cups ignores that as it doesn't recognize those strings?  I'm pretty confused as to what CUPS could be doing different to yield this result.

Darek

> This isn't what I thought it would be.  I'll have to leave this problem to
> someone who knows more about CUPS.  The word "raw" comes to mind, but you say
> you have tried that.
> -Rick
>
> Darek wrote:
> > I figure you are looking at these init strings.  I used vi to see the strings. Here is a copy paste.
> > ^[&l1O
> > ^[&a4L
> > ^[&k4SREPORT DATE: 11-DEC-2006 02:59
> >
> >                                          PICK SLIP# 4879344 - PAGE 1
> >
> > ORDER: 1312180                                                                                    PICK BATCH: 9456235
> > CUSTOMER PO: 84567546876                                                                           WAREHOUSE: AZ
> > BLAH BLAH
> > 12432691/8HC7644200
> >
> > FYI: I took this file which contained these init strings and copied it to both my systems (CUPS vs Std sol9 Printing).  Then i sent the job to the same printer both configured on the individual systems themselves and formatting was lost on the CUPS host.
>





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