Re: Sending output to a laser printer in C

On a sunny day (Thu, 25 May 2006 23:08:43 +0200) it happened Lampa Dario
<lamp@xxxxxxxx> wrote in <44761d15$0$29092$5fc30a8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

have a look at this script:

# ASCII to PS
a2ps -o /tmp/a2ps_tmp1.ps -1 --font-size=$2 --portrait --no-header --borders=no $1

/usr/local/bin/gs \
-sDEVICE=ijs \
-sIjsServer=/usr/bin/epijs \
-sOutputFile=/dev/usb/lp0 \
-r360 \
-dIjsDepth=24 \
-sDeviceManufacturer=Epson \
-sDeviceModel='Stylus Photo 2000P' \
-sIjsParams="PageImageFormat=Raster,ByteSex=little-endian" \
-DNOPAUSE \
-dSAFER \
-- \
$1

There are some points, this is a USB printer, and uses /dev/usb/lp0

It uses ghostscript to process postscript, and in this case the 'ijs' Epson
server.

It uses a2ps to convert ASCII text to postscript.

Maybe it will give you some ideas, try USB device?.

There is a very good printing howto somewhere.


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