On 09/01/2009 07:31 AM, Rich wrote:
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?
The machine I really want to have work doing the sending doesn't have
any kind of port. It is an embedded device that sits on the network. The
printer sits on a server with a parallel port. I can probably do the old
style lpr but I wanted to use the http CUPS thinking I could eventually
do https to get some security.
> What make/model is the printer?
It's an old C-Itoh, and it doesn't really matter. I want a printer
driver that only delivers plain ASCII.
Gus
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