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CUPS printing and control escape codes
I ported application from SysV to Linux and run into troubles with printing.

Application uses lp and HP JetDirect-based printers, it inserts HP control codes in the file and uses plain lp -d dest doc-file command to print it.

The Linux (Ubuntu 8) has CUPS system, which I am not familiar with. I added JetDirect's IP to the hosts and used The UNIX and Linux Forums - Learn UNIX and Linux from Experts interface to add the printer, its model was in the list (this is HP P2015n) and the test print worked like a charm. but when I run app and print from it the control codes in the file body are not recognized as a control sequence characters, but rather as a plain text and printed along with the actual text. I captured the file from the app and tried to print it with -o raw option,
Code:
lpr -P lpr5 -o raw prtfile

but result is the same, control codes are treated as a part of the text.

Any help on how to tune up this CUPS would be appreciated.
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

cups-browsed

cups-browsed(8) 														   cups-browsed(8)

NAME

       cups-browsed - A daemon for browsing the Bonjour broadcasts of shared, remote CUPS printers

SYNOPSIS

       cups-browsed [-v | -d | --debug]

DESCRIPTION

       cups-browsed has three independently switchable functions:

       1.  Browse Bonjour broadcasts of remote printers and create/remove local raw queues pointing to these printers.

       2.  Browse CUPS broadcasts of remote printers and create/remove local raw queues pointing to these printers.

       3.  Broadcast local queues with the CUPS protocol.

OPTIONS

       -v, -d, --debug
	      Debug mode

FILES

       /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf

NOTES

       Please take references to cups 1.6.x to include newer versions.	Similarily, cups 1.5.x is intended to encompass older versions too.

       In  environments  with only cups 1.6.x servers and clients (plus cups-browsed on either server or client or both) the function described in
       1.  enables the automatic discovery of remote queues and their display in printing dialogues of applications and with command line tools.

       The facility provided by 3. means that servers running cups 1.6.x plus cups-browsed can broadcast their local queues so that  clients  with
       cups  1.5.x  get  these	queues automatically available. The outcome of 2. is that clients running cups 1.6.x plus cups-browsed can use the
       CUPS broadcasts from servers with cups 1.5.x. As with browsing of Bonjour broadcasts, the created local raw queues are available to  appli-
       cations and command line tools.

SEE ALSO

       cups-browsed.conf(5)

       /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README

AUTHOR

       The authors of cups-browsed are listed in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/AUTHORS.

       This manual page was written for the Debian Project, but it may be used by others.

								   29 June 2013 						   cups-browsed(8)