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Re: cupsys setting for an 882C?



On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:56:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:08:16AM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> | Robert L. Harris wrote:
> | >
> | >I found the HP driver I needed on the linuxprinting.org.  The only
> | >problem now is the sucker is stair stepping and I can't find a way to
> | >turn it off.
> | 
> | Dunno.... my printer worked fine "as-is".  You might want to dive into 
> | your printer's docs and see if there is a switch for setting the 
> | carrage-return/line-feed sequence (M$DOS) to line-feed only (Unix). 
> 
> It's the other way around.  The hardware needs typewriter-style LF
> _and_ CR "commands".  The "stair" effect is acheived by sending LF (to
> advance to the next line) without returning the carriage to the left
> margin.  As you all know, UNIX text files have only LF characters to
> mark the end of a line.  The unix philosophy is to let the device
> drivers handle hardware-specific conversions.  In this case you need
> the print spooler to add CRs to every LF.  I don't know how you would
> actually set that -- with cups it has "just worked" for every printer
> I've tried (and I know that at least some of them need that
> conversion).

I'm no printing expert, but couldn't you configure the print spooler
to pipe stuff through todos?

Pigeon



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