On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rodrigo Malara wrote: > Em Dom, 2004-01-04 às 11:43, Tom Diehl escreveu: > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rodrigo Malara wrote: > > > > > Hi to all, > > > > > > my company is acquiring an impact printer and we would want to print > > > plain text files with it. In MS-DOS we would do the following: > > > > > > type file.txt > LPT1 > > > > > > So, my question is: Can we (and how) do it using linux too? We have > > > fedora core 1 running here... > > > > Add it to cups using redhat-config-printer* and print to it like any other > > printer. > > > > Maybe "lp file.txt" or whatever you do to print to any other printer. > > Do you know if the text to be printed are graphics rendered (slow > printing) or if the text will be sent to the printer directly to be > rendered by it's built in fonts (faster printing) ? I _think_ it depends on the driver you select but I am not sure. If you do not need the spooler functions you can always do cat filename > /dev/lp1 or whatever the device happens to be. Of course that means multiple users could do the same thing at the same time and really screw things up. :-) HTH, .....Tom
