Re: Printing plain text with CUPS

From: Bob Alexander (bob_at_ngi.it)
Date: 03/31/05

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    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).

    HTH,
    Bob 

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