Raw print job

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:16:48AM -0600, Chris Rendall wrote:
> > At Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:22:19PM -0600 or thereabouts,
> > suspect Chris Rendall was observed uttering:
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas on how to send a print job unmodified to SUSE
> > > Linux?
> > 
> > lp -s -o raw
> 
> Thanks, Mark!  Just a few simple keystrokes and my barcode and dot
> matrix printers are working now!

Note that that's not *always* enough; sometimes you have to 
go to /etc/cups/mime.types, and uncomment the line at the bottom that
says 'application/octet-stream' as well.

Cheers,
-- jra
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