On 2006-07-16, gobo20@lycos.com <gobo20@lycos.com> wrote:
> finally got my old dec wide-carriage impact printer fixed and am now
> trying to get it to work with slack 10.2 cups. i get the stair-step
> problem since auto crlf is turned off on the printer (it also gets
> printed to from a vms box.) my quick-and-dirty fix is to pipe each job
> through a sed script to add the crlf. it seems like there should be a
> better way to do this and not have to use all the
> ppd/a2ps/foomatic/blah-blah stuff cups seems to need. this is text
> only printing. has anyone else done this and found a better way?

Unless you have a printer output filter Linux and other
Unix-like operating systems will just send data straight to the
printer and a printer that doesn't start a new line when it
receives a newline character will exhibit the stairstep effect.
You want to read the Printing-HOWTO to learn how to set up a
printer filter with the print spooler you are using.

You have a Vax running VMS?

Bud