[plug] Printing to an ink-jet / bubble jet from slackware 3.5

[David Buddrige]

thanks. 8-)

David.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Saturday, 6 October 2001 9:40
Subject: Re: [plug] Printing to an ink-jet / bubble jet from slackware 3.5


>On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, David Buddrige wrote:
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>> 1. How does one go about printing straight text files under linux. What
>> configuration needs to be done?
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>To test, you could cat to /dev/lp? . Most printers accept ascii, but
>ususally need CR/LF between lines, ie DOS text format.
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>Normally you print via a queue, either lpd or CUPS. The queue also does
>filtering. Often, plain text is converted to postscript, and typeset with
>ghostscript, like everything else. Then a bitmap is sent to the printer.
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>> 2. How does one go about configuring a gnu/linux system such that it can
>> print postscript - or at least, documents that are not just straight
text,
>> ie. with fonts, etc....from Netscape, or emacs?
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>RTFM.  Normally, an app generates postscript, and send it to the lpd (or
>CUPS) queue, and a filter uses ghostscript to render it.
>  'ghostscript' must have drivers for your printer, and be told which one.
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>Again RTFM:
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>http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/
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>--
>Mike Holland  <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
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>"Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything
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