From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:25:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401032513.GA6276@syscon4.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903311940i516470b4rcb212aa8bbc13629@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/31/09 19:40, Grant wrote:
>I have a Brother QL-570 label printer printing on 29x90mm labels. My
>goal is to have 6 characters printed across the center of the label.
>It prints like this:
>
>$ echo 123456 | lpr
>
>but the text is in the upper corner of the label, it has the wrong
>orientation, and the font is too small.
>
>It also prints like this:
>
>$ lpr test.png
>
>but the text doesn't come out very crisp, and I'd rather not create a
>file with imagemagick for each label to print. Is there another way
>to print large, properly oriented text on the fly?
>
>- Grant
It is not very well supported under Linux:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-QL-570
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 2:40 [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr Grant
2009-04-01 3:25 ` Joseph [this message]
2009-04-01 5:00 ` Stroller
2009-04-01 16:52 ` Grant
2009-04-01 19:53 ` Stroller
2009-04-01 20:19 ` Grant
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