On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Gus Wirth<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Dang. Is this a parallel or serial printer? Can you just print/send directly to the port, vs. going through CUPS, since it's just text? Sort of like redirecting to LPT1: in the old DOS days? What make/model is the printer? -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
