Greetings all! I am in one of my occasional struggles with CUPS (which I hate -- as compared with good old LPD)! Not helped by the unhelpful Gnome: Desktop --> Administration --> Printing "assistant".
Basically, I have an HP LaserJet 1300 which I want to use as a raw printer (I do all my printing via PostScript files which I create myself, and the HP has built-in PS capability, so it's just a matter of piping the PS file straight into the printer, with no intermediate processing).
The printer is to be connected to a laptop via a USB cable. So all I want to do is set up printing on the laptop so that when I issue a command
lpr filename.ps
the PS file gets printed by being sent straight to the printer over the USB port.
So how do I set this up as a raw printer? There seems to be no route to this (that I can detect) via the above "assistant".
Maybe there is a direct method using CUPS-oriented commands from the command-line, but I can't manage to suss that out either!
Any help (especially from people who have done this successfully for themselves) will be highly appreciated!
Thanks, Ted.
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