From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas for an printer filesystem
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:38:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071130133825.GC14203@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071130130631.GA4274@darkside>
* Rodolfo García <kix@kix.es> wrote:
> "Probably" you need three files:
>
> 1. The printer job, for example the .ps file
> 2. The printing options (orientation, ...)
> 3. The printer options (Filters, drivers, ...), in the printer directory
>
> The printing options can be set with 'echo "A4,300ppp,protrait" >
> /printers/LaserJet-A/ctl' The printer options must be in a file,
> and then you can print with something like 'cat myfile.ps > /printers/LaserJet-A/data'
Thats not an good idea, since here you set the parameters for the whole
printer, not just for a single job.
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 23:56 Enrico Weigelt
2007-09-07 8:44 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-07 10:08 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-07 10:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-07 10:54 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-30 7:19 ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-30 3:37 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-30 9:42 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-30 12:32 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-30 13:06 ` Rodolfo =?unknown-8bit?Q?Garc=EDa?=
2007-11-30 13:38 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2007-11-30 16:56 ` Rodolfo =?unknown-8bit?Q?Garc=EDa?=
2007-11-30 16:46 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-30 22:40 ` Lucas James
2007-12-01 4:42 ` ron minnich
2007-12-01 4:54 ` Bruce Ellis
2007-12-11 13:30 ` roger peppe
2007-12-11 20:36 ` Bruce Ellis
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