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

2007-11-07 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
Bob, It's been a while since I did PostScript programming. PS doesn't have PCL type "commands", since PS is really a low-level graphics programming language. So you actually have to *draw* the page using PS, which means setting up your page coordinates and drawing each individual object (characte

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, lab