in reply to Re: PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1
in thread PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1

Watch out for that condescending thing... I find it amusing that you suggest lpd could print to a dot-matrix. lpd only deals in postscript. I had to toss my dot matrix when I went Linux, but I haven't looked back.

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Re: Re: Re: PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1
by AgentM (Curate) on Nov 19, 2000 at 00:36 UTC
    Now I know that's not true at all. lpd handles any printer considering that a driver is available for it. I know this because I have used several OLD printers which I know never supported PS. lpd interacts with the drivers and does nothing else except to block on printer requests which then interacts with the driver appropriately.
    AgentM Systems nor Nasca Enterprises nor Bone::Easy nor Macperl is responsible for the comments made by AgentM. Remember, you can build any logical system with NOR.
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      OK, I should definately do my research before mouthing off. A quick look at the Linux Printer Howto will answer all the questions crazyinsomniac had and possibly a lot more. If he isn't using Linux then some well researched API calls will probably do the trick.

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