Installing a printer

[Keith Clark]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 19:46 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 07:12 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 20:43 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> >> I have a Star TSP600 thermal printer with a ppd file and it is connected
> >> to a Serial to USB converter which is picked up on ttyUSB0.
> >> 
> >> I don't know where to go from here to get it installed and working.
> >> 
> > As an update, I managed to get the printer driver compiled and
> > installed.  I'm trying to print via usb:/dev/ttyUSB0?baud=9600.
> > 
> > Nothing gets printed.  I know it is connected as I can cat
> >> /dev/ttyUSB0 and I can print to it with little issue.
> > 
> > Keith
> 
> Didn't you go through this in 2008 (thread USP to Serial)?
> <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/152704>
> [USB to Serial]

Yup, and gave up.

I thought I'd resurrect it yet again.  I actually have found that I can
get by with printing text files only for my purposes, so using 
'cat textfile.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0' actually works just fine for me!

Keith