I found out later the dos print was successful, so it's something in or
out of the linux printing system. Now that brings up another question
which could save lots of disk space. How much of the high end linux
printing junk can be removed and still have the printing work with cat?
If you're happy with the monospaced-font output, you can harken
back to the halcyon days of *nix and just use the BSD "lpd"
daemon instead of CUPS. With the BSD lpd setup simply spools
output without trying to render it pretty. You can pipe things
through "pr" to paginate (and number pages, columnize, etc) and
other such tools. Or you can just cat into the "lp" command.
For printing signs, the bsdmainutils (at least that's the package
name on Debian) has the "banner" program for use in such a case
which you can use like
banner -w80 "Your banner text here"
The -w parameter sets the number of output columns which, for me,
defaults to something huge. so I use 80-columns (or even less --
it scales nicely). All output is just text-characters so they
can be dumped to the printer or the screen.
It works well with an old dot matrix printer and continuous-feed
paper :)
-tim
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