[ale] Simple, plain, text printing.

[Michael B. Trausch]

James P. Kinney III, on 09/03/2007 04:07 PM said:
> 
> I _think_ you can tell cups that a device is a plain, dumb ascii text
> printer. But a dig through my systems shows that is no longer the
> case. Maybe it works selecting a "raw" printer. I have a panasonic
> dot-matrix I use on occasion and the printing process begins almost
> instantly when I hit print. It seems like the driver does not convert
> to postscript then to dots (but I have not really tested this much at
> all).
> 

Oh.  Hrm.  I always thought that "raw" meant raw PostScript... well,
sort of.  I guess what it /really/ means is send everything to the
printer unadultered.  That's nifty.  I will just have to remember not to
print from GUI applications to this printer...

I tried printing from Thunderbird, for example, and had to reset the
printer so that it wouldn't print pages upon pages of PostScript as
text.  :-P

Now, if I could just figure out the one quirk I am experiencing with my
USB -> Parallel port converter, I'll be all set.  (The print job doesn't
start until I press "ON LINE" on the printer twice, but that was never
the case when I actually *had* a parallel port...)

Thanks for the idea, it works well!

	-- Mike

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