Raw printing

[S. Lawton]

On Friday 11 February 2005 05:38 am, Joe wrote, about Raw printing :
> I was on the web the other day on my notebook (Windoze 98SE, with no
> printer attached).
>
> I did a financial transaction on the web and printed to disk (using
> Firefox).
> I ended up with a file.prn which I assume is native encoded as HP
> printer language (The printer defined on the notebook is an HP 722C).  I
> want to print the darn thing in Windows or Linux (on my desktop, which
> has an HP 895 Cse - which should be able to handle the print file), but
> I can't figure out how to!
>
> I tried using lp -raw file.prn and got a lot of garbage.
>
> What can I try and how do I do it next time so it works easily?
>
> The notebook is not networked to the desktop.  I put the file on an
> sdram card and used sneaker net.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Joe

.prn is the default file extension on my Win98SE when I send a file to my 
"virtual" printer. I think it might also be an EMF, whatever they are. 
I know it stores carriage returns and line feeds for print head control. 
Try opening in a plain text editor like EditPad, SciTE, Gedit, Kate, etc., not 
a Word Processor like OpenOffce or AbiWord, then save it as a .txt file. 

You might also be able to cat it and pipe it to something, but I'm a GUI guy 
not a CLI master. 
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