Re: [Hampshire] 9-pin dot matrix printing - golden oldie

2019-03-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire
> What I want to do is get it to print native characters instead of treating > everything as graphics. I have it printing “graphics” fine via CUPS but > it’s printing everything (even lines of code) as graphics – so it’s very > slow. > > > > And for the curious – no – I’m not having this replace

[Hampshire] 9-pin dot matrix printing - golden oldie

2019-03-26 Thread Rob Malpass via Hampshire
Hi all Anyone know / remember how to configure a 9-pin dot matrix printer with lpr on a modern distro (e.g. Ubuntu)? As I recall from way back, you could do lpr file.txt and it would go straight to the printer. lpq gave a print queue. I've lpstat -t but it's not detecting the