Installing a printer
Keith Clark
keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Wed Mar 17 03:00:57 UTC 2010
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
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