Card Printing Using CUPS.

[Michael Sweet]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:33 PM, sateesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to print cards using CUPS. I have filters to convert  
> a .bmp file data to printer understandable data. But the problem I  
> am getting is when I issue print from a application like gimp, The  
> print data(card data) is being converted to postscript. But I have  
> the filters for .bmp data not for postscript data.
>
> Please suggest me how to get the actual data in filters(that is .bmp  
> format data) with out converting to postscript data.


OK, *don't* use BMP as the format your driver accepts. Use CUPS raster  
and convert to BMP in your driver (assuming that BMP is what your  
device takes), otherwise you'll have to write your own filters to  
convert PostScript to BMP.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer