Re: Printing from windows
> I have never found magicfilter to interfere with this though. I have
> a PCL5 HP5L, and I print through samba to the same printer which I print
> to on linux with lpr, with magic filter -- no problem. From memory
> I did the same with my ESC2P bubblejet 20 before that.
The problem is that my win95 driver is putting out a non-standard pjl
file. It's pjl stuff, but with a couple hundred control-@ charactars at
the front. I have NO IDEA what they're for -- if you delete them you get
a standard pjl file, which magicfilter recognizes and which the printer
prints just fine. It's enough to make you wonder if the printer doesn't
just ignore them -- maybe the win95 driver sticks them there exactly to
make it difficult for utilities like "file" to figure out what's in the
driver output...
Anyway, I changed the "default" line in my magicfilter to "cat" rather
than "djscript" and it works fine now. If someone can give me an idea
about how to write a filter that does nothing, I'll do that ... I'd make
another printcap entry like this:
raw|winprint:\
:lp=/dev/NULL:\
:if=/usr/sbin/rawprint:
where /usr/sbin/rawprint just takes its input and cats it to /dev/lp1 ...
any ideas? Remember that I can't cat anything to lp1 without killing lpd,
which is waiting on lp1 already, but that if I try to do "lpr" within
rawprint, it'll get passed through magicfilter, which is the problem in
the first place...
Will
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