[cups] driver configuration

Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu
Tue Sep 4 12:43:50 PDT 2018


In regard to: [cups] driver configuration, HATEM HATEM said (at 2:28pm on...:

> I tested many drivers (intermec, raw, generic, zebra...), I got
> printing only with raw and generic ones, but text is not formatted as on
> HP Direct Jet. Is there someone who had this experience to help me
> please.
>
> for information on HP Unix, I use a generic driver called "HP CopyJet /
> CopyJetM".

It's been a long time since I've used HP-UX.  Is the HP-UX machine using
traditional System V interface scripts, or is it using something else?  I
don't know if recent HP-UX had CUPS or something else included as its
printing system, so figuring out how job filtering was done would likely
give you a clue where to look on the old systems, to see what the
"drivers" were doing.

A lot of System V interface scripts were just that: scripts.  You could
examine them and see what job control characters were being added to get
the printer to do what you want.

If you can figure out what was being done on the old system, it should
be possible to re-implement that as your own custom filter with CUPS.

Tim
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