Ok, I installed Cups+Gutenprint on my server because Magicfilter doesn't support my "new" printer. After a struggle I have it printing pdfs both locally and remotely.
Plain text, however, is too much for it. With Magicfilter I just typed "lpr filename" and everything just worked, whether the file was plain text or pdf. With Cups "lp filename" (lpr is gone) works fine for a pdf but with plain text gives a gray bar at the top of the page. "lp -o raw filename" is too raw: no carriage returns. There are various filters, of course, but I can't ask my wife to type "<filter> < filename | lp" for plain text and "lp filename" for pdfs. How do I get cups to do what Magicfilter does "magically"? Surely this is a solved problem. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
