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Re: printer purchases

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: printer purchases
Date 2025-08-09 04:36 +0000
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On 9 Aug 2025 03:49:33 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:

> At least from what I have been able to determine, it means CUPS
> rasterizes the images on the host and then sends the uncompressed
> rasterized image to the printer.  Prior to "driverless", CUPs (or the
> earlier system) would send PS to the printer (if the printer could take
> PS or PCL).

Our print interface sniffed at the file. If it was PS it checked the 
printer's capabilities. If it wasn't a PS printer, it shelled out to 
Ghostscript and then sent the rasterized file to the printer. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript

Long way around the barn but some of the upstream apps used nnscript to 
add headers, footers, landscape mode and so forth to reports, some only 
did straight ASCII reports.

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printer purchases Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> - 2025-08-03 03:49 -0400
  Re: printer purchases c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-03 04:10 -0400
    Re: printer purchases Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-08-03 18:51 +0000
    Re: printer purchases Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-08-05 16:57 +1000
      Re: printer purchases Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-06 09:26 +0100
        Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-06 10:10 +0100
          Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-06 20:01 +0000
          Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-08 22:10 +0000
            Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 00:05 +0000
              Re: printer purchases c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-08 22:54 -0400
                Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 04:27 +0000
                Re: printer purchases c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-09 01:37 -0400
                Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 21:00 +0000
              Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-09 11:03 +0100
                Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 21:12 +0000
                Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-10 10:19 +0100
                Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-10 01:59 +0000
  Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-04 05:36 +0000
    Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-04 09:15 +0200
    Re: printer purchases Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-04 09:16 +0100
      Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-04 11:17 +0100
      Re: printer purchases Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-08-04 13:58 +0100
        Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-04 19:03 +0100
      Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-04 19:04 +0000
    Re: printer purchases "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-04 12:40 +0200
      Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-04 11:50 +0100
        Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-04 15:12 +0200
          Re: printer purchases "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-04 20:27 +0200
            Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-05 08:10 +0200
              Re: printer purchases "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-05 12:26 +0200
              Re: printer purchases Louis Krupp <lkrupp@invalid.pssw.com.invalid> - 2025-08-05 05:59 -0600
                Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-05 15:12 +0200
                Re: printer purchases "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-06 12:38 +0200
              Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-09 00:15 +0000
          Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-04 19:09 +0000
            Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-05 08:10 +0200
              Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-09 00:13 +0000
                Re: printer purchases Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-08-09 03:49 +0000
                Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 04:36 +0000
                Re: printer purchases Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-09 09:12 +0100
                Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-09 11:08 +0100
                Re: printer purchases Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-08-10 03:19 +0000
                Re: printer purchases Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-10 09:43 +0100
                Re: printer purchases Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-10 09:45 +0100
                Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-09 11:31 +0200
          Re: printer purchases not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-05 09:15 +1000
            Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-05 08:12 +0200
              Re: printer purchases c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-05 03:48 -0400
                Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-05 11:23 +0200
                Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-05 10:49 +0100
                Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-09 00:19 +0000
                Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-05 19:29 +0000
              Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-05 10:42 +0100
                Re: printer purchases Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-05 15:14 +0200
                Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-05 14:54 +0100
                Re: printer purchases c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-05 19:38 -0400
            Re: printer purchases c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-05 03:45 -0400
              Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-05 10:54 +0100
              Re: printer purchases not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-06 08:20 +1000
                Re: printer purchases Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-06 00:01 +0100
      Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-08 22:06 +0000
        Re: printer purchases Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-09 00:17 +0100
          Re: printer purchases Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-09 00:33 +0100
          Re: printer purchases The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-09 11:00 +0100
            Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 21:02 +0000
        Re: printer purchases Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-09 14:04 +0000
          Re: printer purchases rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-09 21:15 +0000
          Re: printer purchases Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-10 01:56 +0000

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