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

[R. Mariotti]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> 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'?
> 

This is what I am doing already.  It appears that the output is being 
filtered somewhere AFTER it leaves my program.