HP Neoware e90 NeoLinux Thin Clients User Manual - Page 126
Filter, Custom filter, Adding printers using Print Manager, printcap, Custom, ghostscript
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Using the NeoLinux Print Manager utility • Filter [default: Raw]- For most printers, the default Raw setting will be satisfactory. Raw - The printer spool file/stream is fed to the printer port without filtering or other modification. Printers other than text-only or PostScript printers will require a printer driver to be executed on the print-job-generating computer in order create the raw print data that is fed to the printer. Text - The setting to choose for text-only printers, the Text filter (/usr/sbin/crlf-filter) inserts a CR characters before a trailing LF characters before sending the data to the printer port. When selected, this entry creates the following line for this printer in the dynamically-generated printcap file: :if=/usr/sbin/crlf-filter:\ Custom - Allows free-form definition of a print filter that should be used for this printer. For an example, see Custom filter, immediately following this. • Custom filter - This entry is used only when Custom is selected in the Filter field. The filter may be a script, in which case the path to the script should be entered in the Custom filter field. If you have installed the ghostscript snap-in, and are setting up a non-PostScript printer (Epson C40US), then you might enter the following in the Custom Filter field: /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE\=stp -sModel\escp2-c40us -dDensity\=0.8 -r1440x720 -dImageType\2 -sOutputFile\=- In this case, the print file would be sent to ghostscript for processing, along with the command-line settings detailed in the text string. When not blank, this entry creates the following line for this printer in the dynamically-generated printcap file: :if=/tmp/config/:\ 126 Adding printers using Print Manager