Printing text files with Fedora (impact printers)

[fred smith]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:37:24AM -0200, Rodrigo Malara wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> my company is acquiring an impact printer and we would want to print
> plain text files with it. In MS-DOS we would do the following:
> 
> type file.txt > LPT1
> 
> So, my question is: Can we (and how) do it using linux too? We have
> fedora core 1 running here...

In printconf-gui, choose a suitable driver for the printer (if it
is e.g. Epson-compatible, find a driver for the Epson model it 
emulates) then in one of the screens, perhaps driver options, you
can select a checkbox for sending text as text (don't recall how 
it is worded, it may be worded to render text as postscript, in 
which case you want to UN-check it).


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