Hi all
Anyone know / remember how to configure a 9-pin dot matrix printer with lpr
on a modern distro (e.g. Ubuntu)?
As I recall from way back, you could do
lpr file.txt
and it would go straight to the printer. lpq gave a print queue. I've
lpstat -t but it's not detecting the printer.
What I want to do is get it to print native characters instead of treating
everything as graphics. I have it printing "graphics" fine via CUPS but
it's printing everything (even lines of code) as graphics - so it's very
slow.
And for the curious - no - I'm not having this replace my modern printer -
but I hate to see working tech binned - and besides which I have a box of
untouched fanfold paper in the loft.
Cheers
Rob
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