On 26 Nov 10:21, nev young wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
On 26 Nov 09:53, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
OK, still struggling with this stuff, and yes, I have googled it to death with mixed success. How does raw printing work exactly? Do you get to send an ascii character stream directly to the printer, and how does the printer know what to do with it? Are there any decent references anywhere?
All I am looking to do is send a few characters and line feeds, and don't care about fonts or formatting of any sophisticated sort. One would think it should be possible using lpr, but if anyone has actually done this, it might save a lot of time and experimentation.
This is just printing characters, its not real document printing, layout, all that stuff.
why not just do
cat [filename] > /dev/lp0
you can't get much more RAW than that!
Ah, but that doesn't work if the printer is networked ;)