[Eclug] cups serial printing

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  • Bob Mariotti r.mariotti at fdcx.net
    Wed Nov 8 20:09:09 EST 2006

     

    Al Beauregard wrote:
    > I would imagine it in some way involes moving or sylinking 
    > /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/serial into /usr/lib/cups/backend/
    >
    > but that's just a guess, I've never used a serial printer in linux 
    > other that just cating text to the device 
    Thanks Dave, Ro, Jack and Al for the responses.  From them I've been 
    able to make SOME headway.  I was able to secure the BETA linux modules 
    and ppd's for this particular printer directly from DYMO for trial.  
    That is tomorrow's project.   I'm still trying to coordinate the 
    physical i/o over the ttyS2 (serial) port.   ABTW - using the cups http 
    access (host:631) I was able to define as a local file using the value 
    of "file://dev/ttyS2"  and it took it.  Whether or not it will output is 
    another story.   Time will tell.
    
    Dave:  On AIX this was really quite easy.  On Linux (ubuntu anyway) it 
    hasn't even been close to easy!  So tell our employer NOT to throw out 
    the AIX yet!
    
    Bob
    
    

     

     

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