how do you print an image from AIX ? I want to take a jpeg and just sent to printer from AIX do not need to view it.

Thank You

You will need some program to take the picture and produce something the printer can understand from it - usually PostScript or something such. Let lpr then take care of the output of this program.

"just send it to the printer" you can, but how do you expect the printer to digest it in the way you want? TOIPP (Telepathy Over IP Protocol) is still experimental. ;-))

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thank You...
I am sending to a PS printer, but just garbage prints.

How are you sending it to the printer? What are you using to open the photograph? There is no point do lp -d printername file.jpg as that will just print rubbish.

I don't need to view image, just send to PCL printer. I am doing lp -d <printer> <file>.jpg.

Above you said you send it to a PS printer. Anyways: obviously the .jpg file is NOT PostScript (or PCL), ok? So, in order to translate it to PostScript you need some program, ok so far?

Usually viewer programs have built in such programs so one option would be to open the JPEG with such a program and hit "print" - this is what you have been told by johnf and me.

Probably there are other - batch-mode-capable - JPEG-to-PostScript converters but we don't know one - fire up your favourite search engine and more likely than not you might find one. Configure this program to act as a "backend" in your printer queue, you will maybe have to hack "rembak" (the system-provided printer backend) to suit your needs.

I hope this helps.

bakunin