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What extension for a print to file?
I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white
laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? |
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What extension for a print to file?
On 01/14/2016 08:35 AM, Micky wrote:
I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? Normally one would do something like add a print to PDF driver. This would then by default just print (save) to a .pdf extension without asking you, it's the only option since it's a narrow minded program. something like this http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Once installed it makes a print driver you just pick from any print dialog. The resulting PDF file can be printed later if you have your printer working, or moved to another machine that prints and print from there. Or just saved for later viewing and use. Paperless office! |
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What extension for a print to file?
From: "Micky"
I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? Standard practice is .PRN However different printer drivers will generate different code that will be in the PRN. For example; Printers using Printer Control Language ( PCL ) will be in the PCL format. PostScript printers will be in PostScript format The reason being whatever would have been sent for the Printer Driver is redirected to a disk. One could then send the file to the Printer Port Example: copy TEST.PRN /b LPT1: or copy TEST.PRN /b PRN: When you assign an extension to a file the OS uses "File Association" to load the file into an application, that application assumes the format of the file is what the file extension indicates. You can't just name any file as JPG ( JPEG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG ) because a Graphics Program that; views, renders, alters or edits a JPEG must be given a JPEG formatted file. Disk Files often use a header which identifies when the contents of the file is supposed to be. A JPEG would have JFIF in the header. A ZIP file would have PK in the header. A 7zip file would have 7z in the header. A RAR file would have RAR in the header. A Windows Executable will have MZ in the header. If you looked at a file and in the header was "%PDF" what do you think the file is and what program could read it ? If you put the contents of a MS Word DOC file in a file named with the extension JPG, th Default Graphics Program associated with the JPG extension will say the file is corrupt because it expected a JPEG and you gave it a MS Word document. You can't just blindly assign a file extension to any file and think that it will be readable. Between the Printer, NTFS and other questions... I am beginning to see a pattern here. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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What extension for a print to file?
On 01/14/2016 08:35 AM, Micky wrote:
I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. This depends on what drivers print out the file or which software you use to display and edit the file. One solution may be to print to file in several standard formats (e.g. TXT, PRN and RTF) and then see which best fits your current system. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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What extension for a print to file?
Micky wrote:
I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? As David says, try ".prn" as the extension. Then, change the name like this after printing is complete someprint.prn.txt and open with a text editor. There should at least be a few lines of "header" info at the beginning and the end, that you can read. The actual language inside the print job, could be PCL5, PCL6, PostScript and so on. You will need to expand your technicians toolkit to work with that stuff. In this example, the encapsulation sections, you'd remove those, and the resultant file is then "standard PostScript". So the print file can consist of more than one layer, which may be important if post-processing with other tools, and they cannot "tolerate" noise. I removed the non-ASCII characters when copying this, so this isn't a verbatim copy of what you'll see. 12345X@PJL JOB \___ encapsulation, remove @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT / %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Title: f1040.pdf .... Pscript_WinNT_Min dup /min_terminate get exec %%EOF 12345X@PJL EOJ \___ encapsulation, remove 12345X / In the case of a PostScript interpreter, it probably manages to ignore the encapsulation, and I remove the header and trailer as a matter of appearances. But if you're the curious type, examination with a text editor would be a start. Paul |
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What extension for a print to file?
Paul writes:
Micky wrote: I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. Use IE, much easier, since it comes up with the OS browse GUI to decide where to save the file. In FF, you need to put in the full path to a directory FF has write permissions to. Simplest would be to open explorer, go to a directory where your user has write permissions, and then in the URI bar select the string (this gets around differences in the display names such as different languages and so on) and paste it into the single-line FF print to file interface, appending your actual file name after the path. of explorer It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? As David says, try ".prn" as the extension. Yes, ".prn" is the usual extension for a printjob, use that by all means. Regards, Gernot Hassenpflug -- NNTP on Emacs 24.3 from Windows 7 |
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What extension for a print to file?
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:11:17 -0500, Big Al wrote:
On 01/14/2016 08:35 AM, Micky wrote: I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? Normally one would do something like add a print to PDF driver. This would then by default just print (save) to a .pdf extension without asking you, it's the only option since it's a narrow minded program. something like this http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Installing it now. Thanks Once installed it makes a print driver you just pick from any print dialog. The resulting PDF file can be printed later if you have your printer working, or moved to another machine that prints and print from there. Or just saved for later viewing and use. Paperless office! |
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What extension for a print to file?
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:08:14 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
wrote: From: "Micky" I'm not able to print to my newly installed Brother black and white laser printer so I printed to a file instead. From Firefox. It asks what the name of the file is, and I don't konw what extension to give it. Things were the same with my fully functioning Brother AIO, I don't knolw what to name the file and the 200 page manual doesn't say a word about that. When I gave it a .jpg extension, it was described as damaged or corrupted. I know it wouldn't take a bribe so it must be damaged, or I named it wrong. What extension for a print to file? Standard practice is .PRN However different printer drivers will generate different code that will be in the PRN. For example; Printers using Printer Control Language ( PCL ) will be in the PCL format. PostScript printers will be in PostScript format The reason being whatever would have been sent for the Printer Driver is redirected to a disk. One could then send the file to the Printer Port Example: copy TEST.PRN /b LPT1: or copy TEST.PRN /b PRN: When you assign an extension to a file the OS uses "File Association" to load the file into an application, that application assumes the format of the file is what the file extension indicates. You can't just name any file as JPG ( JPEG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG ) because a Graphics Program that; views, renders, alters or edits a JPEG must be given a JPEG formatted file. Disk Files often use a header which identifies when the contents of the file is supposed to be. A JPEG would have JFIF in the header. A ZIP file would have PK in the header. A 7zip file would have 7z in the header. A RAR file would have RAR in the header. A Windows Executable will have MZ in the header. If you looked at a file and in the header was "%PDF" what do you think the file is and what program could read it ? If you put the contents of a MS Word DOC file in a file named with the extension JPG, th Default Graphics Program associated with the JPG extension will say the file is corrupt because it expected a JPEG and you gave it a MS Word document. You can't just blindly assign a file extension to any file and think that it will be readable. LOL. I actually knew that, but jpg was all I could think of. Thanks for the answer, and thanks eveyrone. Between the Printer, NTFS and other questions... I am beginning to see a pattern here. |
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What extension for a print to file?
Micky wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:11:17 -0500, Big Al wrote: something like this http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Installing it now. Thanks btw, pdfcreator will allow saving/printing to about 10 different formats. |
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What extension for a print to file?
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 18:37:58 -0600, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: Micky wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:11:17 -0500, Big Al wrote: something like this http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Installing it now. Thanks btw, pdfcreator will allow saving/printing to about 10 different formats. I saw that it did 4. Ten is reallllly good. but I havent' had occasion to use it yet. I'm going to make an effort again to fix that Brother all-in-one laser (which came with a spare tube of toner), and that will involve printing to a file, which will use pdfcreator. But much of the incentive is gone since I got the Samsung laser working and bought a new drum/toner to go with it, which came in the mail yesterday. And all of the impatience is gone since now I've been printing my xword puzzles on the Samsung and not wasting inkjet ink, esp. color ink to print black and white puzzles. |
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