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[Shizzle Cash]

On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Keith Clark wrote:

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> Mario,
>
> It's a Star TSP600 Thermal Receipt Printer via Cable Unlimited USB  
> 2.0 to RS232 Serial Adapter

A quick search turned up a CUPS driver for this printer on Star's  
website:

http://www.starmicronics.com/drv/software/starcupsdrv-2.9.0_linux_mac_20080327.tar.gz

I would say this would be your best option for getting this printer to  
work under Linux.  I'm not sure if this is the driver you're  
attempting to get working or not, but in general, cups drivers are  
just definition files and don't need compiling.  As you can see by the  
filename, it will work under OS X as well, since OS X uses CUPS for  
its printing back-end.

It appears that you get drivers in rpm and tarball format in that  
file.  It looks like the tarball has the source code and will need a  
compile.  If you want, you can attempt to convert the RPM file to a  
deb package using 'alien'.  You might need to install it ('sudo  
aptitude install alien') Aptitude should install all necessary  
dependencies for it as well.  A quick way to install without it  
prompting you as to whether or not you want to install the extra  
packages is to throw a '-y' switch in before the 'install' statement.

Anyhow, instructions on how to use alien to convert between .rpm  
and .deb can be found here:
http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-convert-redhat-and-fedora-rpm.html