Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text
Ok, I installed Cups+Gutenprint on my server because Magicfilter doesn't
support my "new" printer. After a struggle I have it printing pdfs both
locally and remotely.
Plain text, however, is too much for it. With Magicfilter I just typed
"lpr filename" and everything just worked, whether the file was plain
text or pdf. With Cups "lp filename" (lpr is gone) works fine for a pdf
but with plain text gives a gray bar at the top of the page. "lp -o raw
filename" is too raw: no carriage returns. There are various filters,
of course, but I can't ask my wife to type "<filter> < filename | lp"
for plain text and "lp filename" for pdfs. How do I get cups to do what
Magicfilter does "magically"? Surely this is a solved problem.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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