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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*</H1>
+ <B>Jeff Robins</B>
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+ <I>Fri Jul 27 18:54:07 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Dan Fandrich &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">dan at coneharvesters.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Jeff Robins wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I'm not sure if that will work. CUPS doesn't have a driver for the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> device and it's not really a printer.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It just uses the USB printer class. It's used to cut shapes into or
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> out of paper. This includes
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> moving the blade up and down. I looked at the program and I thinks
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> its sending G-code, which is
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> used for CNC work.
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+</I>&gt;<i> CUPS has a rule to send raw binary data directly to the device without
+</I>&gt;<i> interpreting it first. If this device emulates a printer at the USB
+</I>&gt;<i> level, it ought to work. At worst, you may have to add the -oraw option
+</I>&gt;<i> or add a rule to /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs to force cups to treat
+</I>&gt;<i> the data as &quot;raw binary&quot; (instead of text, for example) so it's sent
+</I>&gt;<i> directly to the printer instead of being rasterized first.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Dan
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+USBLP worked for getting the Wishblade detected. If I can get the
+rest of it working, then I'll try popen().
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+Thank you all for the help.
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+--Jeff
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