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

Thomas Glanzmann thomas at glanzmann.de
Tue Mar 22 01:46:44 PDT 2011


Hello Berend,

>> HP-UX prinint system 'formatted output'

> Does that print umlauts correctly?  I have to assume it does, since
> ps/pdf files will set the character set.

yes, it does. See scanned printout from the hp-ux printing system:
http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/hpux.pdf

> What type of file does cups *think* you are printing?
> I have to assume text/plain.

text/plain is correct.

> Right, it's printing 80 columns, when you probably want 132 columns.

Exactly.

> What kind of jobs are you planning to send?  Always the same text
> files?

Yes.

Cheers,
        Thomas





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