06-09-2005
How do you send printer codes to an IP printer
We were printing to a serial laser printer with all the HP codes to generate a form (i.e. lines, boxes, etc.) Thus the file is filled w/ control codes. We are switching to an IP printer and we can no longer print directly to the device (i.e. cp text /dev/tty11). It looks like we have to use the lp spooler now. When we do this the codes are ignored as the line is too long. Is there away to send raw text to an IP printer that is using the Jet Direct card to setup the queues? I saw an stty option on the lp command, can that be used to put it in raw mode?
Thanx for your help
Jeff
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slp(1) General Commands Manual slp(1)
NAME
slp - set printing options for a non-serial printer
SYNOPSIS
cols] indent] lines] pages] pages]
DESCRIPTION
sets printer formatting options such as the number of lines per page, number of characters per line, and indentation. These characteris-
tics are controlled by the printer driver as described in lp(7). acts on the current standard output.
Options
recognizes the following options and arguments:
Report all option settings.
Specify a character printer
where backspace characters pass through the driver unchanged. The absence of this option indicates a line printer.
The driver takes the necessary action to accommodate backspace characters.
Resets the printer back to line-printer mode.
Limit the number of columns to be printed to
cols. Characters beyond the specified limit are truncated.
Reset options to default for the device.
This action is not taken until the next open occurs on the device.
Indent indent columns before printing the first column.
Select cooked mode.
Cooked mode must be used with a cooked device special file which is identified by an lp mnemonic that is not preceded
by the character
Specify the number of
lines per page. The last new-line character of each page is changed to a form-feed.
Set the page size to infinity.
Since the last new-line of the page is never encountered, no new-line characters are changed to form-feeds.
Select a raw mode for graphics dumps.
All other options are ignored except If the option is not given, is assumed.
Eject zero or more
pages after the final close of the device.
Eject zero or more
pages when the device is opened.
EXAMPLES
In a typical case, the printer is set to 80 columns, no indentation, with no form-feeds between pages:
WARNINGS
Use of the command in conjunction with the spooler (see lp(1)) might cause undesirable side effects. The spooler model files make assump-
tions regarding the configuration and can get confused when the default values are altered. Although most options can be altered without
difficulty, special problems sometimes result from adjusting the number of lines and the number of columns per page.
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
lp(1), ioctl(2), lp(7).
slp(1)