Re: printing from Plan 9

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019, at 10:04 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
> Before replacing my expiring inkjet printer I thought I'd ask
> the list: does anyone still use lp(1) nowadays, and are there
> printers currently on the market which work well with Plan 9?

I got an Epson because they have an email print service. It supports pdf, but not ps. Is that any good? Maybe you could filter through ps2pdf(1).

I just realised I never tried it before, so I sent it an email with empty subject, empty body, attached il.pdf; it printed out fine apart from a 1-2 minute delay before it began. Results are identical to printing from a PDF reader on Windows with default settings, apart from not being vertically centered on the page. I imagine it would be better if ps2pdf was given the correct paper size; il.pdf is set for taller paper than I have.

The setup to get the email address for the printer was fairly brief, involving a web page if I remember right. Nothing like setting up anything on Linux. You get an email address unique to your printer.

https://www.epsonconnect.com/

https://www.epsonconnect.com/guide/en/html/uses_1.htm