[ale] Printing Suggestions

[Mark Hurley]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> At the office we have an HP Laserjet 8100L.  I'm used to apsfilter which
> has worked great in the past.  I'm trying to print to this booger using
> standard lpr.  When I "lpr test.txt" it looks nice, except for lines that
> go off the edge, they just disappear, no line wrap or anything.  When
> I have to print reports I don't want to go in and manually clean up
> the text since I just want to scan down it or have for personal reference
> in a meeting.  
> 
> I've tried using the "raw" and "auto" interfaces.  Also tried diffent
> drives, but it seems none of them work.
> 
> Cups doesn't appear to have a valid version for Debian right now, is it
> worth converting an RPM and configuring?  Is there anything better?

I use  'a2ps'  and it allows for my favorite printing styles (2 pages
per side of paper).

It's only a short step away on Debian:

        apt-get install a2ps


Mark Hurley

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