Re: Printing plain text with CUPS

From: Almut Behrens (almut-behrens_at_gmx.net)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:09:23 +0200
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    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 

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