Printing plain text to dot matrix printers
Posted on September 9th, 1997 by shacker
Got an old dot matrix printer around and you want to print out some plain text? Plug it into your computer and launch the Printer prefs panel, then click Add. Your printer should come online. Close the preferences panel.
Now launch a Terminal window and „cat“ a file to your printer. For example, if you want to print the file blah.txt
to a printer on parallel port 1, you would type:
cat blah.txt > /dev/parallel/parallel1