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On Monday 23 January 2006 07:20 pm, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> This time the printer whirred to life printed the |
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> first line of text across the very top of the paper |
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> then quit with the orange error light blinking. BTW, |
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> this is a DeskJet 612C using the hpijs driver. |
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What I expect is happening is that the text file has only linefeeds (\n or |
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ASCII 0x0a) instead of carriage return/linefeed (\r\n or ASCII 0x0d 0x0a) so |
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the head is never getting the command to go back to the start of the line and |
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the line length "overflows." This is one reason why "raw printing" can be a |
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problem. What you really want is a queue that merely replaces \n with \r\n |
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instead of a true raw queue. CUPS does not seem to provide this, instead |
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preferring to convert to postscript and then to raster. Personally I don't |
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see this as a problem, but your needs are probably different than mine. |
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One option to solve this is to emerge unix2dos and use the following command |
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line: |
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unix2dos filetoprint.txt | lp -l |
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Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, |
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