Continuous feed dot matrix printers

[Net Llama!]

On 01/13/03 19:14, Alan Jackson wrote:
> I support some software on CPAN that builds mailing labels in PostScript.
> 
> I just got a query from a fellow who has a continuous-feed tractor printer
> (an Okidata) who wants to print labels on it from Linux.
> 
> I think I gave away my old dot matrix a few years ago so I can't do any
> testing. I suspect that creating a postscript file is probably not the way
> to handle a continous feed printer - probably just want to send it raw
> printing commands and text. Does anyone have experience with continuous
> feed on Linux? How does it work? What sort of drivers do you need? Am I
> making this too complicated?

I think Google is your best friend in this case:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=okidata%20dot%20matrix&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_ugroup=*linux*&lr=lang_en&num=50&hl=en

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