On 08/31/2009 08:13 AM, Gus Wirth wrote:
On 08/31/2009 07:23 AM, Rich wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Gus Wirth<[email protected]> wrote:
I have a really old dot-matrix printer that I want to use for doing
some remote logging using CUPS. The printer only handles plain ASCII,
doesn't do escape sequences, graphics, or anything like that. I can't
seem to find a printer driver in CUPS that handles that sort of
thing. Anyone know of a printer driver in CUPS that only does plain
ASCII?
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and under the printer setup (I think it uses
CUPS underneath the GUI), I found, under Generic Printer, a driver
called just "Generi text-only printer". Perhaps that would work if
not already found/tried?
That sounds exactly what I'm looking for. I'm using Fedora 11 with CUPS
1.4RC1. Since I already have one printer hooked up to my parallel port I
guess I was getting confused on what the remote printer would be.
This would be great... except it doesn't work. I try to take some
application like gedit in GNOME or kate in KDE or Firefox reading a
local plain text file and it won't print anything. It throws an error
(only visible in the logs) and just goes away.
I have to do some more investigation and will probably resume the
questions on the main list because I'm about to plunge into the guts of
how CUPS works with queues and filters and ugly conversions.
Gus
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