On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:03:48PM -0400, Tim Wright wrote:
> I have a Panasonic KX-P1123 dot matrix printer that I want to use for basic
> text printing. As a 24-pin printer, it runs faster in native LQ mode and
> prints cleaner than what comes out of the Postscript driver. Right now it
> seems that KDE and CUPS insist on talking to it in Postscript, no matter how
> I configure it. I set up a raw printer in KDE for plain ASCII, and that
> seemed to take, but when I told Konqueror to print a sample ASCII text file
> to "Text Printer," the Panasonic spat out a huge quantity of Postscript
> instead of the three lines of text I had in the file.
>
> What did I miss? Do I need to send these ASCII jobs to LP0 from the command
> line instead of the GUI?
If you're using CUPS, what PPD did you use? The correct PPD for that
printer should resolve any issues. Also, why tell Konqueror (a browser)
to print a *text* file? If you're just going to print text files like
that, by all means use the command line. In Debian at least, you can get
a Berkeley lpd package that mates up with CUPS and allows you to do the
standard "lp -Pprinter myfile" thing.
Paul
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