Printing to Windows spooler from Unix

[Dennis Malen]

We are printing the file to a windows queue from UNIX which is for a laser 
printer and we had it defined as raw data. We also tried defining it as PCL. 
Both did not work and printed the page with the print commands.

As far as telling the windows spooler that it is already formatted, we have 
no idea.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:03 PM
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?
>
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