On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 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?
I set up my Citizen GSX-230 for ASCII printing (actually raw, whether or not
it's 7-bit ASCII) by defining a queue in CUPS named "gsx230r" (in my case).
It has device=LPT#1, make="Raw", model="Raw Queue(en)", and I print to it by
doing
... | lpr -P gsx230r
I can probably do
lpr -P gsx230r filename
but I haven't tried.
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