On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Warren Block wrote:
[snip]
For extra points, add another printcap entry for lp: that will print
plain text.
I did something essentially identical to what Warren outlined, and it's
worked fine for many years now, since long before I'd ever heard of
CUPS. Here's the printcap entry:
# HP color laser
lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\
:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto":
By using various names separated by pipe symbols, they are all
equivalent. Since one of them is lp, you can just send text to the
printer and it works, e.g.
$ lpr textfile
I think that "lp" being the first entry makes it lpr's default; not
positive about that.
/usr/ports/print/enscript* is nice for that, or lots of people use
/usr/ports/print/apsfilter so they can send about anything to the
printer and let it do the conversion.
The printer should already know how to print text. Just send it via lpr;
no additional software needed.
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Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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