Printing text files with Fedora (impact printers)

Rodrigo Malara rmfedora at agnitia.com.br
Sun Jan 4 13:57:34 UTC 2004


Em Dom, 2004-01-04 às 11:43, Tom Diehl escreveu:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rodrigo Malara wrote:
> 
> > Hi to all,
> > 
> > my company is acquiring an impact printer and we would want to print
> > plain text files with it. In MS-DOS we would do the following:
> > 
> > type file.txt > LPT1
> > 
> > So, my question is: Can we (and how) do it using linux too? We have
> > fedora core 1 running here...
> 
> Add it to cups using redhat-config-printer* and print to it like any other
> printer.
> 
> Maybe "lp file.txt" or whatever you do to print to any other printer.
> 
> 
> ....Tom
> 
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Do you know if the text to be printed are graphics rendered (slow
printing) or if the text will be sent to the printer directly to be
rendered by it's built in fonts (faster printing) ?

TIA
Rodrigo





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