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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 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">dan at coneharvesters.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Jeff Robins wrote:
</I>>><i> I'm not sure if that will work. CUPS doesn't have a driver for the
</I>>><i> device and it's not really a printer.
</I>>><i> It just uses the USB printer class. It's used to cut shapes into or
</I>>><i> out of paper. This includes
</I>>><i> moving the blade up and down. I looked at the program and I thinks
</I>>><i> its sending G-code, which is
</I>>><i> used for CNC work.
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</I>><i> CUPS has a rule to send raw binary data directly to the device without
</I>><i> interpreting it first. If this device emulates a printer at the USB
</I>><i> level, it ought to work. At worst, you may have to add the -oraw option
</I>><i> or add a rule to /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs to force cups to treat
</I>><i> the data as "raw binary" (instead of text, for example) so it's sent
</I>><i> directly to the printer instead of being rasterized first.
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</I>>>>><i> Dan
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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
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