Subject: Re: printer
To: Don Lewis <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/1995 09:05:40
On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Don Lewis wrote:

> On Apr 7,  1:28pm, "Tom T. Thai" wrote:

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> If lpfilter blindly does LF to CRLF mapping, I'm pretty sure it will break
> PCL bitmap graphics.
> 
> My favorite minimalist printcap entry for printing text and PCL to a PCL
> printer (more or less from memory) sets the following:
> 	ff=\EE\E&k2G
> 	tr=\EE
> 
> The ff sequence resets the printer and sets the end of line termination
> so that the printer maps LF to CR+LF.  You might also want to tweak the
> margins and line spacing so that you can print 66 lines/page.  The tr
> sequence is just a printer reset, which has the side effect of causing
> the printer to flush the last partial page (if any).  If you sent a FF
> instead, you could end up printing an extra blank page.

but this is a PostScript printer as well as PCL.

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