On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Keith Christian wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > 'lpr -P "hp officejet 6100 series"' (yes, with the double quotes) should > > work. > > Igor > > Hi Igor, > > Thanks - almost there - The Officejet printer printed raw Postscript > commands instead of the document. For example, the first line of the > printout was: > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Pages: (atend) > %%BoundingBox: 1 49 594 747 > ...etc...etc..etc..etc... > > Other suggestions appreciated.
Ah, right. lpr just sends the raw output to the printer -- you need to add a filter of some sort. Unfortunately, I can't think of the exact way right now -- I just know it's possible. Perhaps someone else will chime in with a solution. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/