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That's not the fault of CUPS. Old Laser printers were brutally poor at modeswitching. You have to send the set of escapes for language selection in exactly the
by mmastrac 11y ago
That's not the fault of CUPS.
Old Laser printers were brutally poor at modeswitching. You have to send the set of escapes for language selection in exactly the right state in the state machine for it to take effect. If you've left a bit of an old job in a buffer somewhere -- oops, that's 50 pages of raw postscript.
Modern printers that ditched plain-ASCII printing are far more reliable.
- dekhn 11y agoI disagree about the old laser printers. I had printcap files that would take dvi2ps postscript just fine. This was CUPS just catting ps output of ghostscript at the printer without setting control codes no matter how it was configured.