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Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text

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On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 10:16:27 -0600, John Hasler wrote:

> Ok, I installed Cups+Gutenprint on my server because Magicfilter doesn't
> support my "new" printer.  After a struggle I have it printing pdfs both
> locally and remotely.
> 
> Plain text, however, is too much for it.  With Magicfilter I just typed
> "lpr filename" and everything just worked, whether the file was plain
> text or pdf.  With Cups "lp filename" (lpr is gone) works fine for a pdf
> but with plain text gives a gray bar at the top of the page.  "lp -o raw
> filename" is too raw: no carriage returns.  There are various filters,
> of course, but I can't ask my wife to type "<filter> < filename | lp"
> for plain text and "lp filename" for pdfs.  How do I get cups to do what
> Magicfilter does "magically"?  Surely this is a solved problem.

The printer name and model would be useful to know; as would the PPD
presently being used.

There is no difference in using lp or lpr.

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Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 17:20 +0100
  Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 17:40 +0100
    Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 18:20 +0100
  Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 18:10 +0100
    Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 19:00 +0100
      Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 19:50 +0100
        Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 20:40 +0100
          Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-02 21:00 +0100
            Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 21:30 +0100
              Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-02 21:50 +0100
          Re: Cups, Gutenprint, and Plain Text Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 21:10 +0100

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