[Cialug] Printing without a driver, ..

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Fri Sep 9 13:32:26 CDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:23 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> What is the simplest way to print an 'image' of a page? Is it as simple as a
> netcat?

What exactly do you mean by 'image' and 'page'?  Most printers out
there will take plain text and do something intelligible with it, but
for anything else you'll need something to convert your source format
into PCL, PostScript, or whatever other commands your printer needs to
make toner or ink to come out in the right places.

-- 
Jeff Ollie


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