Re: IBM Infoprinter 20 under Linux with lprng

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From: Terryc
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:50

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Terryc wrote:
> Nick Andrew wrote:
>> Terryc <newsfourspam-spam@woa.com.au> writes:
>>
>>> And no, I don't want the brainless twit suggestion of upgrading to 
>>> the latest linux printing bloatware. This is a postscript printer 
>>> dammit, it shoud just work under linux lprng.
>>
>> But Cups _does_ support the IBM Infoprint 20. PostScript PDL isn't
>> everything you know; the host still has to get the data to the
>> printer somehow.
> 
> That is the problem, it isn't.

and the problem was instead of the line (in /etc/printcap)
	:rp=lp:\
it should be
	:rp=PASS:\

and it works for postscript and pcl.

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