[nylug-talk] Commands to Brother laser printer under cups?

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:21:26AM -0500, R. Mariotti wrote:
> Fellow luggers;
> 
> I print quite successfully to a networked Brother HL5250DN laser printer 
> connected with CUPS.
> 
> I am now trying to output from a perl program and I need to move the 
> left margin further left.  I've tried sending down PCL commands with 
> zero results.
> 
> Has/can anyone please provide what may be necessary to send a few setup 
> commands to this printer that will work?  Again, all that I am trying 
> simply print as text or eliminate the text altogether.
> 
> Thanks all,
have you tried pipeing the output to 'lp','lpr', or 'a2ps'?

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