Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

[Manuel McLure]

maxim wexler wrote:
>>What I would try is to set up another printer queue,
>>using "Raw Printer"
>>- this makes cups get out of the way as much as it
>>can (even more than
>>-l would do.)
>
>
> Not sure, but if you mean
>
> sarawak heathen # cat cups_error > /dev/lp0
>
> then the result is as before: some noise followed by a
> blinking trouble light.

Try

	cat cups_error | unix2dos >/dev/lp0

If that works, then a raw queue in CUPS will work as well. Set up a new 
queue in CUPS and define the printer make as Raw and the model as Raw 
Queue. Then you can use

	cat cups_error | unix2dos | lpr -Praw_queue

and it should work. The only thing that worries me is that perhaps you 
wouldn't get a form feed at the end of the print job to eject the page. 
Somewhere or other I have a little C program I wrote to handle all of 
this conversion - I'll send it if I find it.	

It does seem that CUPS has an "everything should be Postscript" view of 
the world and does not handle plain text printing as smoothly as it 
should (instead it converts text to postscript and then converts that to 
raster for printing.) It doesn't bother me, but I don't have your 
printing needs. You *could* use the standard CUPS 
text->postscript->raster functionality, but I expect that it would be a 
*lot* slower than plain text printing. Perhaps you should try lprng 
instead of CUPS as your print spooler - it may be a better option for 
what you're trying to do.

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