[cups.general] PCL printing failure Red Hat Linux

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Oct 6 07:37:21 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 07:23 -0700, Chris VanDuyn wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting PCL print files to print correctly on Red
> Hat Linux. No matter what driver I use to set up the printer the only
> output I'm getting from the printer is the first line of the PCL file,
> followed by multiple blank pages. I've killed many trees trying to get
> this to work and have made no progress, so I'm hoping someone out
> there can has seen this before and knows which switch to throw to get
> this printing to work.

If your input file is already in PCL format you probably just need to
print the file with the 'raw' option, like:

lpr -o raw -P ...

Tim.
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