[KLUG Members] printing .prn

[Mark Kowitz]

The way I understand Windows .prn files, is they are a printable file,
embeded with the windows print driver commands, specific to the
printer it was made for.  In windows you can "print to file", using a
particular printer driver, and then later just copy the file to the
printer via DOS. EG: "copy file.prn \\server\printer".  The driver
that creates the file has to be the correct driver for the printer the
file is later copied to.
I used to do this, but I'm not sure if this is the same thing you're
talking about. (for whatever it's worth).

mk

On 2/22/07, Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> 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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