Re: [LIP] Fwd: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Printer

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Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

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>Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Printer
>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:28:39 +0530 (IST)
>From: "Rajen M. Parekh" <[email protected]>
>To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers-8OISVr27DW9evyIjhjC63J/[email protected]>
>
>
>On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Rony Bill wrote:
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>>Dear Luggers,
>>
>>My printer queue name is 'LX300' and device is a local printer /dev/lp0.
>>What command should I add in the command line for the open office
>>printer setup? I tried lpr, lp -d LX300, lpr -d LX300 but nothing seems
>>to work. The test page in the OO printer setup simply ejects the page
>>    
>>
>
>This reply is probably late, but I hope it will still be helpful. First
>of all I am assuming that the printer in question here is a Epson LX 300
>Dot Matrix printer. Before I begin I suggest that you go through our lug
>mail archive, because a few months back I had replied to somebody
>regarding using Dot Matrix printers under Linux.
>
>Anyway, I'll explain what setup I have done for using Epson LX 300
>printer with Linux.
>
>The story in short is to move away from CUPS if you want to use Dot Matrix
>printers with Linux. You should use LPD printer software like the
>excellent LPRng. Red Hat till its release 8.0 used to include LPRng, but
>later version deprecated the software. The reason for this would best be
>known by their developers. I don't want to offend anybody or  start any
>flame war but seriously Red Hat was probably never developed for
>Desktops. Try something better. Try SuSE, or better, try Slackware ;-)
>
>The long story starts now. Well here is what you need to do to get your
>Dot Matrix printer working  under Linux. First of all when using Dot
>Matrix printers, you should use LPD printer software like LPRng.
>Printing software like CUPS use postscript printing by default (try
>printing a simple text file with CUPS) where as LPRng prints text
>files in text mode. For printing files other then text files with LPRng,
>you need a filter program which tells LPRng to filter the file to be
>printed and get the desired output. If you are interested you should
>install a software called apsfilter. This requires you to install
>ghostscript and gs-fonts. These are mostly available on most of the
>distros. You can then easily set up your printer using the SETUP script
>which comes with apsfilter. Setting up a printer to work with LPRng is
>actually writing a correct /etc/printcap file and using the correct
>driver file from ghostscript. My current /etc/printcap file looks like
>this,
>
>lp|eps9mid;r=240x204;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
>
>     :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>     :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>     :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
>     :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
>     :mx#0:\
>     :sh:
>
>The only important thing above is the using the "eps9mid" printer driver
>and "r=240x204" resolution entry. This is included by aps-filter to
>specify what resolution is used. The output is excellent and you couldn't
>ask for anything better.
>
>I am currently using Slackware 10.0 for my office computer and all my
>Invoice printing (using Foxpro with DOSemu),
>Spreadsheet/Quotations/Letters printing (using OpenOffice), is done on
>Epson LX300 printer. When I was using Red Hat (the last I used was
>release 8.0) I was never satisfied with the printing. After I moved to
>SuSE and later on to Slackware, I am more then happy.
>
>I am sorry for this long mail, but I hope it helps.
>
>Regards,
>Rajen.
>
>
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