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

Thomas Glanzmann thomas at glanzmann.de
Mon Mar 21 10:40:32 PDT 2011


Hello Bryan,

> What version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux?  Which version of CUPS?
> Depending on the answers to those questions, it should be possible to
> get the file to print properly using some options to the lp command
> (and also possibly using the iconv command to convert the document to
> UTF-8).

RHEL 5.5, cups-1.3.7-26.el5

> Rather than doing this, it may be simpler just to define a raw print
> queue, or to use the "-o raw" option on the lp command that you use to
> print the file.  The effect should be the same -- the file will be
> sent to the printer unprocessed.

I already tried that, the result was worse compared to what I currently
have: http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/0114_001.pdf

> Have you opened a support case with Red Hat?  If you have, let me know
> the case number and I'll take a look at it.

Not yet, but if it helps the case, I would go ahead and immediately open
one.

Cheers,
        Thomas





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