Printing to console

[Pocius Arturas]

How can I print to console (700/60) attached printer from shell script and cron job?

Thanks.

Arturas Pocius

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

if you want to print to the console just redirect your output to /dev/console. If you have a printer attached you should be able to redirect your output there. Something like:

echo "This is a test" > /dev/ttynn

Set the device according to the device your printer is connected to.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

I guess you like a transparent printing, so you can use the console while cron print to console printer...


Read the console guide and look for scape commands ...

In a ansi terminal ( your is configured as vt100 or hp) you must send the scape secuence

\E[5i to start sending to attached printer and \E[4i to stop it.

So if you send \E[5i this message goes to printer \E[4i to the terminal it will be write to the printer not to screen.

You must find this secuences for vt100 or hp. Dont know if CTRL-R and CTRL-T will work.


\E stands for scape ( 0x1b)