Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <twe-suse.e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sat, 18 Dec 2004, by jimo@xxxxxxxxxx:

> In preparation for upgrading from SuSE 7.3 to 9.2, I'd like to print
> out a bunch of config info on my shiny new Kyocera printer.  I've got
> the PPD file from the LinuxPrinting.org site (I think there's also
> one on the CD that came with the printer) and poked around on the
> LP.org site a bit, but all the info seems to be CUPS specific and
> I've always just used lpr.  If I can do something quick and dirty
> using lpr and save CUPS until after I move to 9.2, it'd save some
> steps maybe.

CUPS is easy to setup, in the time it took you to investigate this,
you could have had it up and running.

> For what I need immediately, ascii text will do, so I probably don't
> even need to worry about GhostScript (I'm running gs 6.51), and it's
> conceivable the 1020 knows ps itself (the LP.org FAQ gives a command
> for putting it into PostScript mode, KDPL2)

Just try 'echo "hello world" |/dev/lp0'
If that works you can 'cat' files to the printer
I don't know anything about lpd, except that it's a major pain to
make it work the way I want it to.

Theo
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