[KLUG Members] printing .prn

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:12 -0500, greenproc wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I have gotten used to saving a printable version of a web page to file.
> > Firefox saves them as .ps and KGhostView opens and prints them nicely.
> > 
> > Today I saved a printable file at the library and it was saved as a .prn
> > by IE. I mailed it to myself at home. But how do I open it? KGhostView
> > and Evince Document viewer don't want to open it. Evolution says it's a
> > plain text file, but my text editors don't handle it. 
> > 
> > So how do I open it to print it?
> 
> Have you tried opening the IE saved .prn file with firefox?  If that works,
> then you could export from firefox as .ps and do your usual.  How does OO
> handle the file?

Firefox just asks me what program I want to open it with. Doesn't open
it itself.

OO.o Writer just opens it as a string of commands to the printer.

I went into the CUPS documentation and made the Brother printer the
default printer. The ff command then sent the file to the printer, the
printer light that shows it's receiving a file blinked, but nothing
printed. I tried this twice.

 lpr /home/eric/Desktop/FreshmanSeminar/Scotts_MakeEmplHealthy.prn

So this leaves me with two questions,
1) What's the correct naming convention to send it to the Brother
printer if that is not the designated default printer? I tried both
   -P usb:/dev/usb/lp0
and
   -P HL-1440
Maybe I should have tried 
   -P Brother HL-1440.

2) Why does it not print when it is sent? (The printer works find with
stuff sent from programs such as OO.o or gedit.)

EB
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