Samba column and row - page setup
Greetings, I am running a suse9.2 box no gui purely as a PC-Server, it has a dit matrix printer attached to it and it works just fine. The client has now requested the printer be able to print label sheets. The sheets are also continuous feed like the paper except there are labels with no gaps. There are 5 across the top IIRC and can't remember how many down, but anyway. I know that I will need to setup rows and columns in the page setup. Anyone here know how, or has read something thing that could assist me in setting up samba to do this sort of printing? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated, Thanks (I hope I have explained this well enough) -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:39 am, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I am running a suse9.2 box no gui purely as a PC-Server, it has a dit matrix printer attached to it and it works just fine.
The client has now requested the printer be able to print label sheets.
Any printer should be able to print label sheets. You just need to load the correct labels, then send formatted data matching the layout of the labels to the printer.
The sheets are also continuous feed like the paper except there are labels with no gaps. There are 5 across the top IIRC and can't remember how many down, but anyway.
I know that I will need to setup rows and columns in the page setup.
Anyone here know how, or has read something thing that could assist me in setting up samba to do this sort of printing?
I was with you until you got to the samba part, what does samba have to do with printing labels to a dot matrix printer? Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
From: "Scott Leighton" <helphand@pacbell.net>
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:39 am, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I am running a suse9.2 box no gui purely as a PC-Server, it has a dit matrix printer attached to it and it works just fine.
...
I know that I will need to setup rows and columns in the page setup.
Anyone here know how, or has read something thing that could assist me in setting up samba to do this sort of printing?
I was with you until you got to the samba part, what does samba have to do with printing labels to a dot matrix printer?
Scott
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, I know, I know .... nothing ; - ) Chadley, You need to look into the printer control language for your dot matrix printer to determine the type of output to feed it to make the data wind up in the format you want. Traditionally, this has been handled by software and drivers that know how to take the information you want to print and formatting it for your printer. Neither Samba or Cups has anything to do with this. Cups is just tangentially involved in allowing you to determine whether to dump raw data to a printer or whether to use a third party driver to do it. Whatever application you use to print from is where you need to start looking at formatting the columns and rows. Get that solved and Samba, Cups or lp will do their parts. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
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