Available fonts and printers

Scripts are provided in the GRE-install-dir/bin directory to get information about the available fonts and printers for that machine.

These scripts are executed from the command line.

What printers are supported?

The printerinfo script lists the available printers, however not all available printers are supported.

The printers supported must be graphical printers.
  • On Windows™, a Windows printer driver for the printer in question must be installed.
  • On UNIX™, the printer must support Postscript or a converter from Postscript to the printer's native language (typically a ghostscript backend) must be installed and configured.

Plain text printers or bar code printers with proprietary control languages are not supported.

Search the internet for Windows drivers for some brands of thermal transfer bar code printers when the vendor does not provide a driver, as others have specialized in providing such drivers.

Do not use dot matrix printers in graphical mode, even if the drivers exist. The speed is typically too slow, and the print results are poor.

UNIX and CUPS