Continuous feed dot matrix printers + Brother 1440 Laser.

[Ben Duncan]

I found that CUPS was a PITA on yea old Dot matrix printers, since 
most of my
customers use pre-printed forms for Appgen. LPRng was very nice and 
the print filter
was about 6 lines long. SOme run reports on greenbar paper that often
  go to to 1000 pages or more. The simply filter will also work with 
laser printers,
provided the default settings are set to certain specifications.

On the the Brother HL1440, I have the Brother 1240 - which is the fore 
runner
of the 1440. It is my thow-in-the-car-as-I-travel printer and usually 
spends
half and half duty between my Linux Laptop and the ONLY remaining wilslut
boxen I have here. Neary a peep out of the Brother, and has worked 
flawlessly.

On THIS server I am lucky enuff to have a HP4000N. Page count shows I 
am up to
180,000 pages thru it, and it shows NO sign of even being tired.

I use the HIGH-capacity Toner cartridges and currently showing that 
36,000 pages
have passed thru this particular cartridge. I usually print small text 
reports, so that
in itself is not strange.

My .02 GPB .....

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?
> 


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