CUPS Generic text-only printing

dolandtan · 05-15-2007, 02:52 AM

Hi All,

I am using cups with rhel 4. Bascially i need to print from Mainframe to my new print spoofing server, and from this printer server to remote printer or text file.

I have created 2 nodename on the mainframe, they are named as Nodename A & Nodename B, A is configured for landscape printing and B is for portrait printing. The printer able to print (output to a text file)to Nodename B and CUPS not able to print landscape Nodename A. Both are printing to a text file and i am using Generic text-only driver.

As for my thinking is that there is no different as it is printed to text file, so it does not matter whether is portrait or landscape as the output will be the same.

Thanks

bigrigdriver · 05-15-2007, 05:15 AM

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have created 2 nodename on the mainframe, they are named as Nodename A & Nodename B, A is configured for landscape printing and B is for portrait printing. The printer able to print (output to a text file)to Nodename B and CUPS not able to print landscape Nodename A. Both are printing to a text file and i am using Generic text-only driver.

That's probably because you only have a portrait mode print defined in CUPS.

Let me suggest an alternative method.

I have one physical printer, but twelve virtual printers. I used CUPS printer setup to define 12 printers:
1- draft-greyscale-protrait
2- draft-color-protrait
3- normal-greyscale-portrait
4- normal-color-portrait
5- high-quality-greyscale-portrait
6- photo-quality-color-portrait
7- draft-greyscale-landscape
8- draft-color-landscape
9- normal-greyscale-landscape
10- normal-color-landscape
11- high-quality-greyscale-landscape
12- photo-quality-color-landscape

One of them is designated the default printer. When I want to print other than the default, in the print dialogue box, I click on the drop-down list box and select the printer to use. The only reason to go into printer setup is to change the number of copies to print.

Perhaps you could do the same. Define you printers in CUPS. Then configure the mainframe to send jobs to either one or the other, rather than define the printers on the mainframe and try to print to CUPS with only one printer defined.

dolandtan · 05-15-2007, 05:20 AM

Hi Big Rig Driver,

Thanks for your reply....but i need to print out to text file only, i dun want to print out to a printer. The reason is because there is a shell script need to process this file. And user need to loggin to mainfame in order to print their docs, they are not allow to access this new printer.

Thanks