cups

[Carlos Silva]

hi,

I have printed a plain text file with lpr..
And, as I said I have a ppd from hpijs, footmatic, etc packages...

Best Regards,

Carlos Silva, CSilva
Web: http://www.csilva.org/



Jin Guojun [VFFS] escreveu:
> Carlos Silva wrote:
>
>> No, but i'll try this.
>>
>> I don't understand why lpr prints and cups not :(
>
> It is not clear how you printed via lpr. Unless you have a postscript
> (with .ps files) or plain text (for text only) printer, lpr will not 
> print
> correctly except printing some garbages.
>
> If you used gs to convert .ps files to hp 1115 coded files, then you
> may use "lpr" command to print. Is this the way you printed?
> If so, the DeviceFILTER you used in gs option
>    -sDEVICE=DeviceFILTER
> indicates the printer driver you need to use for CUPS. If CUPS has
> no related filter, then you need to write a filter/PDD file to invoke
> gs to do the conversion job for CUPS to print.
> It needs some work, but it is not too bad.
>
> I have a MFC 420n printer, I could not find a filter in either gs
> or CUPS, so I cannot use this printer under Unix/FreeBSD via
> lpr or CUPS :-)
>
> Since you said that you can print via lpr, then you should be able
> to print via CUPS. Just need a more clear picture on how you printed
> by using lpr.
>
>    -Jin