On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Chris Hill wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Warren Block wrote:
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":
Some printers are pickier about the queue name than others; depends on
the print server.
By using various names separated by pipe symbols, they are all equivalent.
There's not much reason to have more than one name for a printer. I use
lp for text-only queues, and other names for non-text queues.
Since one of them is lp, you can just send text to the printer and it works,
e.g.
$ lpr textfile
/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.
Sometimes, depending on the printer. Without a text filter, you might
get the stairstep effect described in the handbook Troubleshooting
section. enscript is nice because it does page numbers and titles and
other formatting.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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