Re: [Boston.pm] Send Setup commands to Brother HL5250 printer?

2007-11-07 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
. Mariotti Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:11 PM To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: [Boston.pm] Send Setup commands to Brother HL5250 printer? Fellow luggers; I have a short perl program that prints labels n-up on standard letter sized pages (actually Panduit Labels). This originally printed

Re: [Boston.pm] Send Setup commands to Brother HL5250 printer?

2007-11-07 Thread Gyepi SAM
Hi Bob, CUPS would definitely not expect PCL input. Not sure if it's possible to tell it otherwise. A couple of suggestions: If you're generating PCL from your program, you may want to consider filtering it through GhostPCL which converts PCL into Postscript. If you're not averse to python,

[Boston.pm] Send Setup commands to Brother HL5250 printer?

2007-11-06 Thread R. Mariotti
Fellow luggers; I have a short perl program that prints labels n-up on standard letter sized pages (actually Panduit Labels). This originally printed to an HP2600 printer which has since been retired and replaced with a Brother HL5250DN printer. This printer is connected via CUPS on Linux so