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Re: Printing plain text with CUPS



On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:54:55PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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?  I've never figured it out and if I could get it 
> working I'd be so happy!!!
> 
> I'm using Debian 3.0 and the printer is connected via serial interface. 
> I'd use LPD but I have colour printer (Epson Stylus C43UX) too.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> John
> 
Hi John,

I'm not sure if that would suit you, neither if your printer would allow
for it, but I normally use a2ps. It produces nicely formatted,
configurable output.

Hth, 
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