CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

[Helge Blischke]

Matthias Apitz wrote:

> 
>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> > ...
>> > i.e. the filter 'rastertohp' is there, what it is missing?
>>
>> Ghostscript - look for pstoraster or gstoraster.
>>
> 
> The way generating PCL from the big Postscript file, using Ghostscript'
> driver ljet4, works fine; the resulting file is only around 64 Kbyte (and
> not 1 MByte Postscript) for a single half page; the PCL prints fine on HP
> LaserJet models, but not on some Kyocera Mita FS1010, which are attached
> on USB to Windows PC's and controlled by some kind of Windows spooling
> software (in CUPS they are configured as socket:/.... using a Generic PCL
> driver);
> 
> I know that is now already far of topic, but maybe someone has an idea
> were to look, because the customer has around 70 of these old printers and
> awaits that they work with Unicode as they did before with ISO 8859-1
> printing.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>     matthias

See
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1010
Kyocera's website states that this printer speaks pcl as well.

Additionally, if you use Ghostscript release 9.01 or higher, you could feed the texttops output 
through ghostscript and get (a compressed) level 2 PS file with embedded subsetted fonts
(you can tweak the properties of this gs device using the setdistillerparams operator
as it is in nearly the same device as pdfwrite).

Helge