Zebra LP2844 Linux and my headache!

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 21:51 -0400, Lee McLain wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
>    I just got my hands on a Zebra/Eltron LP2844 direct thermal label
> printer. I would like to send straight ASCII to the printer so that I
> can use the EPL2 printer language.  How can I find out what device the
> printer gets set to?
> 2) Send ASCII to the printer directly and not through CUPS.

Set another copy of the printer up in CUPS using the 'raw' driver.  (I
like the web interface for CUPS)
Then CUPS won't interpret what you sent it.  This works to send control
codes to PCL printers, so I can't see why it wouldn't work for EPL2.

HTH
Brian
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