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

[Berend De Schouwer]

On 22/03/2011 10:41, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> the following does what I want, but by a total different way:

Well, that's good, isn't it?

> a2ps -1 -B -f 8.9 --borders=no -P pcopa4_V ~lza/lsmen/frapack.lst
>
> This converts ascii to portscript and sends it to the printer. What I
> initially wanted to tell cups to take the text and send it to the
> printer as 'formatted text' as the HP-UX printing system does. (See
> pcaps in previous e-mails).

If you want Cups to behave exactly like LPD on the network, please post
the relevant /etc/printcap section of the HP-UX machine.  I assume it's
running LPD since you referenced that RFC, and I also assume it has a
if= or of= section for that printer.  That will tell you which driver(s)
HP-UX is using.  Then look at lpadmin's -i option to use legacy drivers.

I don't really see the point of attempting byte-for-byte identical
network dumps.  LPD and Cups don't work the same, and that's a good
thing(tm)




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