X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: r Subject: Re: Print Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <48A36A83.D78B160B@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-112/mm/ao (Win32) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2008-08-13, Brian Dessent wrote: > The thing you have to realize about lpr is that it does no translation > of the input whatsoever, it simply sends the file to the printer > verbatim. Most printers these days only recognise a specialized > proprietary language, which varies between manufacturer and model. The > chance of a printer being able to directly interpret postscript is > almost nil, unless you're talking about an expensive workgroup/server > style of printer. Even text files need encoding in many cases. In > short, this translation falls under the job of the printer driver, which > is not involved in the equation at all when you use lpr. You either > need to use something that does use the Windows printer driver (like > notepad for text files), or something that has its own equivalent > functionality (like ghostscript.) > > There was a recent thread on the topic which you should read: > > [...] > > This should in theory work, but you'd need to configure ghostscript > (through command line arguments or whatever) to tell it what kind of > printer you have so that it can translate postscript into the format > that the printer can understand -- assuming that ghostscript supports > your printer model. > > Brian > This afternoon I'll try -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/