printing signs from command line environment

[Jude DaShiell]

I see nothing and that's been the case for the last 55 years.  So far as I 
know no way other than banner may exist to do this job.



On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Terry Klarich wrote:

> I suspect cups is taking this text/plain file and converting it into postscript and from there, who knows.
>
> What do you see in your /var/log/cups/error_log file?
>
> Are you using the proper ppd file?
>
> what do you see when you do a "lpoptions -p {PRINTERNAME} -l"?
>
> You can edit your /etc/cups/mime.convs to tell cups what to do with your file.
> Terry
>
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:52:07 -0400 (EDT)you write:
>> I found out later the dos print was successful, so it's something in or
>> out of the linux printing system.  Now that brings up another question
>> which could save lots of disk space.  How much of the high end linux
>> printing junk can be removed and still have the printing work with cat?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Terry Klarich wrote:
>>
>>> Does the printer work under windows?  Have you tried to cat a plain text file to the printer, by passing cups?
>>>
>>> Terry
>>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:43:29 -0400 (EDT)you write:
>>>> When printing something like a sign, it's helpful to print in a larger
>>>> font than 8 point type. Do any command line tools exist to adjust the font
>>>> upward on a text file say created with emacs and save that so when the
>>>> file gets printed, the printing will come out at a larger size specified
>>>> by the user? I'd prefer not to mess around in gnome or at least have a
>>>> means to do this with the command line when gnome accessibility goes away
>>>> temporarily because of updates in the future. The dot matrix printer I
>>>> have I can't get working even with very competent sighted assistance yet.
>>>> It's a panasonic KXP-1123 and though we got the ppd file installed for it
>>>> from linuxprinting.org all the printer prints out is dollar signs and
>>>> question marks and long lines.  This was a new never used printer out of
>>>> the box recently I can get replaced easily enough but don't know if
>>>> there's a firmware update it needs.  It would be quicker to do firmware
>>>> update for it than replace it if such is the case.
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