[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

Fri Jul 27 18:54:07 CEST 2012

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