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Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer - SOLVED



On Tue 09 Sep 2014 at 23:22:09 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:

> From the command line -
> 
> lpr -o portrait  -o cpi=17  -P POS58 /var/www/receipt.txt

Glad you now have printing to your satisfaction, but the "-o portrait"
option is bothering because neither the manual page for lp (which has
the same function as lpr) nor the online documentation (localhost:631)
mention it. It also doesn't appear to be in the source code of
cups-filters. Where did you get it from?

   lpr -o landscape=false  -o cpi=17  -P POS58 /var/www/receipt.txt

is what could be used for portrait orientation.

Anyway, be that as it may, you can save yourself some typing by doing

   lpoptions -p POS58 -o landscape=false -o cpi=17

This creates a file ~/.cups/lpoptions (/etc/cups/lpoptions if done as
root) which is read by any application using cups, including lp and lpr.
It is now sufficient to type

   lpr -P POS58 /var/www/receipt.txt

Even this can be shortened to

   lpr /var/www/receipt.txt

by setting POS58 as your default printer:

   lpoptions -d POS58





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