[Cialug] Printing without a driver, ..

[Nathan C. Smith]

Using ps/LPD ?  is this a network printer?




-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:40 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Printing without a driver, ..

At 01:32 PM 9/9/2011, you wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:23 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > What is the simplest way to print an 'image' of a page? Is it as
> simple as a
> > netcat?
>
>What exactly do you mean by 'image' and 'page'?

'image' = page formatted in the language of the printer - i.e. no driver or translation involved. Think .ps, though it isn't in this application.

>Most printers out there will take plain text and do something 
>intelligible with it, but for anything else you'll need something to 
>convert your source format into PCL, PostScript, or whatever other 
>commands your printer needs to make toner or ink to come out in the 
>right places.

The page is already formatted properly in a file, the question is how [mechanically] would it get sent to the printer.

         Lee 

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