From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lor3m-0001D9-Iy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:24:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26890E0854; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 03:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.shawcable.com (shawmail.shawcable.com [64.59.128.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35DFE0854 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 03:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bpd2mi2no-svcs.prod.shawcable.com ([10.0.184.121]) by bpd2mo3no-ssvc.prod.shawcable.com with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2009 21:24:12 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=nCiPXCxoAAAA:8 a=qOXJ2COXEf0qhpkJfFQA:9 a=mkWmaa6JsUyfbo7TiDsA:7 a=9voqiX4I0TfMc8EP7wAQEv6RB8oA:4 a=MpHewGMIdDMA:10 a=ElL7gFGlqSUA:10 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.39,305,1235977200"; d="scan'208";a="140241725" Received: from unknown (HELO bpd2mi2no-cmts.prod.shawcable.com) ([192.168.183.121]) by bpd2mi2no-cmts.prod.shawcable.com with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2009 21:24:12 -0600 X-reinject: true Received: from s01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net (HELO syscon4.localdomain) ([68.148.245.78]) by bpd2mi2no-dmz.prod.shawcable.com with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2009 21:24:12 -0600 Received: by syscon4.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F37C5C3A8A; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:25:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:25:13 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr Message-ID: <20090401032513.GA6276@syscon4.inet> References: <49bf44f10903311940i516470b4rcb212aa8bbc13629@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903311940i516470b4rcb212aa8bbc13629@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: bf3ccb99-6516-4b12-a2e9-f955c8980e7c X-Archives-Hash: 5c4521775521e034897e470de2425acf 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