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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:26:05PM +0200, Elmars Ositis wrote: > The reason I can't use raw and change the printer settings is that the same > printer is also used by the SNA server in the service center. Changing the printer settings, wasn't my intention. Calling a shell script or a perl script which call lp/lpr with -o raw instead of calling lp/lpr direct. > What I would like to do is run the output through a filter to change the CR > end of lines to CR-LF, set CPI to 12 and LPI to 8 and dump to the printer > with no other changes. Nowhere in the CUPS documentation or maillists have > I been able to find this. Even google comes up with only laser printer > related issues. The CUPS documentation does mention you would need to > configure to run through a filter. But leaves the rest up to your > imagination... Look at http://www.linuxprinting.org/CUPS-Filter-Chart.html to get an impression of CUPS printstream flows. AFAIK is there no other way then -o raw to byepass the input format detection and converting to Postscript. -- Martin Reising mailaddress see header natural computing GmbH http://www.natural-computing.de/ Martener Str. 535 Phone: +49 231 6104850 44379 Dortmund Fax: +49 231 6104840
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