Printing to Windows spooler from Unix

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|-----Original Message-----
|From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
|[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of 
|Kenneth Brody
|Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:04 PM
|To: Dennis Malen
|Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
|Subject: Re: Printing to Windows spooler from Unix
|
|Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:50:26 -0500):
|[...]
|> If we print to a defined printer on the windows server the file is 
|> printed, but does not execute the embedded print codes. They show on 
|> the printed page as:
|>
|> s12H etc.
|>
|> How do I get the windows printer that is defined on the 
|server side to 
|> recognize the print codes and to print the page properly? 
|This problem 
|> only occurs when printing directly to or through the windows spooler.
|
|It sounds as if Windows thinks it's a text file that is to be 
|printed, rather than the file already containing the printer 
|control codes.  (As if you had brought up the file in notepad 
|and tried to print it from
|there.)
|
|How, exactly, do you print to the Windows spooler from Unix?  
|Is there a way to tell it to tell Windows that this is already 
|formatted for the printer, and to treat it as raw data?
|
|_______________________________________________

It could also depend on how you have the printer defined on *nix, if I
recall correctly.  Where we had a Windows printer defined on Linux, we had
to make certain that the printer was defined as a text or raw printer.

-MikeR