From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] printing from Plan 9
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:45:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6057e0ce-09fd-4996-b669-b508ea02bbd7@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <248a959f6e8ea9cb7ebfe1534d30a40a@hamnavoe.com>
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019, at 10:04 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
> Before replacing my expiring inkjet printer I thought I'd ask
> the list: does anyone still use lp(1) nowadays, and are there
> printers currently on the market which work well with Plan 9?
I got an Epson because they have an email print service. It supports pdf, but not ps. Is that any good? Maybe you could filter through ps2pdf(1).
I just realised I never tried it before, so I sent it an email with empty subject, empty body, attached il.pdf; it printed out fine apart from a 1-2 minute delay before it began. Results are identical to printing from a PDF reader on Windows with default settings, apart from not being vertically centered on the page. I imagine it would be better if ps2pdf was given the correct paper size; il.pdf is set for taller paper than I have.
The setup to get the email address for the printer was fairly brief, involving a web page if I remember right. Nothing like setting up anything on Linux. You get an email address unique to your printer.
https://www.epsonconnect.com/
https://www.epsonconnect.com/guide/en/html/uses_1.htm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-16 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-14 9:04 Richard Miller
2019-09-14 9:14 ` Covert Username
2019-09-14 10:43 ` Graham Gallagher
2019-09-14 11:41 ` Richard Miller
2019-09-14 12:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-09-16 11:42 ` arnold
2019-09-15 19:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-09-16 4:14 ` Lucio De Re
2019-09-16 13:45 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2019-09-16 17:41 ` hiro
2019-09-14 9:12 umbraticus
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