[KLUG Members] Printing fun

[Dirk H Bartley]

>>An application sends basic text to lpr.
>Maybe,  figuring out what is incoming is the filters job assuming you used the
>RH printtool to create the queue.  Could be text, or postscript, or jpeg,
>or....

>>It comes out of the printer at 10 characters per inch.  I would like to
>>preceed the text getting sent with the escape codes that tell it to print
>>at 12 or 14 cpi.  I have tried using leader (ld) in the printcap to send a
>>string to the printer.  No matter what I put in, only the banner page prints

>There printcap filters are only used for the banner page.

So I cannot alter printcap to change anything but the banner page?????  I'm
confused.

>>if the :ld=\r:\ or any other string is in printcap for the printer.  The
>>question is, How do I tell the printer to print a different characters per
>>inch if I need to accomplish this from the linux printing tools rather than
>>he application?

I'v also tried pw with no positive results.

>Do you have to print using lpr?  I run all text jobs through mpage which lets
>you set sizes,  put on page numbers,  double up pages, etc.....  It turns text
>jobs into nice postscript.

I don't know that the application is using lpr, I just assume it is.  It is a
business application that I tell which printque I want a certain application
defined printername to be.  The it prints to the correct printer.  I thought if
I could change the que to modify the text then I could see the whole page.

>mpage {-1 -2 -4 -8} -F{fontname{ -h{header} -L{lines} -W{width} -P{printer}

Cool, I could have used that for something else a few days ago.

>>Do I need to edit the filter?

>No! Don't do that.  It gets ugly.

Ya, but I've done that in SCO.  It was basically just a few sed scripts, which I
understand, even with a few escape codes in it I could trudge my way through! 
Here I am not having any progress unfortunately.

Dirk