Re: Printing plain text with CUPS
El Jue 31 Mar 2005 14:09, Almut Behrens escribió:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:58:49PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
> > Almut Behrens wrote:
> > >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:54:55PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote:
> > >>I have an Epson LX-300+ dot matrix printer and I only want to print
> > >> plain text to it. I used the "raw" queue, but then it never sends a
> > >> form feed to the printer after each job.
> > >>
> > >>Can anyone explain how to add a form feed string so that the printer
> > >> does it after each job?
> >
> > As a side solution if your prt supports postscript you would want to try
> > the a2ps package. very neat (ascii to postscript).
>
> not sure about the Epson LX-300+, but are there actually _any_ dot
> matrix printers natively supporting PostScript? (just wondering...)
>
> Almut
I have an application that prints to LX-300 printers as well as many other
Epson dot matrix, including receipt printers. If you do it from a C program,
it's relatively easy to send a "\f" to the printer. Additionally, many of
those printers can be configured to do a "form feed" after every job.
Regards.
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