Re: ps printer?

From: Frank Butter (svlists@osp-dd.de)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 04:03:18 EST


On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? =BF=C0=B0=E6=C1=D6 ?= wrote:

> I setup network printer(assigned IP) by editing /etc/printcap file.
> Printing post-script file(.ps) is done well. ( $> cat test.ps | lpr)
> But text file printing don't work. ($> cat test.txt | lpr)
> WHY?
> Network printer is "Xante accel writer 3n" (ps printer)
> thank you.

IMHO on many PS-Printers you can't just print ascii.
Try to filter it through a2ps to generate postscript
(this can be done in your printcap automatically,
if you use a special printer entry for ascii).
you can do fancy formatting as well using this way.

frank

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