[cups.general] Print formatted text to a kyocera printer

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello,
I'm in the process of converting a HP-UX system to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux System running cups. The printer in question is a kyocera printer
FS 2020. When I print a ascii file[4] containing iso_8859-15 chars on
the HP-UX box, the printer prints it. I captured the bytes on the wire
using tcpdump[1]. When I print the same file on the cups machine it
first converted it to postscript but wrapped after 40 chars in the
process. So I removed the following line from /etc/cups/mime.convs

text/plain             application/postscript  33      texttopaps

Afterwards cups refused to print the file at all, so I added the line 

*cupsFilter: "text/* 0 textonly"

to the ppd file[2]. Now it prints it is very close to the anticipated
output, but the upper right 'Seite 1' is missing. And the german umlaut
'ä' is not printed. I captured communication between cups and the
kyocera printer using tcpdump[3].

Looking at the HPUX lpd sniff, I see that it uses the printer command 'f
- Print formatted file[5]'. I wonder how I can get this with cups?

[1] HP-UX pcap http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/hpux.pcap
[2] PPD file   http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/kyocera.ppd
[3] CUPS pcap  http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/cups.pcap
[4] Text file  http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/frapack.lst
[5] lpd rfc    http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt

Cheers,
        Thomas