[cups.development] How to develop a thermal printer driver

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Wed, 10/8/11, vtevtdj <vtevtdj at 126.com> wrote:

> > I am trying to develop a driver
> for BSV4 (Toshiba Tec) thermal printer.
> > First I have down is a file .drv following the example
> in /usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv which have several
> printers including some thermal ones.
> > The file I made was compile with ppdc. See "Developing
> Raster Printer Drivers".
> > After this I could install the printer unless I have
> not the filter to convert raster format into my printer
> language.
> > The filter should be on /usr/lib/cups/filter/ and to
> make it I followed rastertolabel.c filter as example. You
> need to download cups dev files to see this code.
> > Finally compile your own code with the order
> > gcc -lm -o outputfile `cups-config --cflags`
> yourfilter.c `cups-config --image --libs`
> > and place the output in the filter directory.
> >
> > If your code is OK the printer works. I am still
> trying it.
> >
> >
> >
> > > I saw a few days CUPS example, but still not very
> clear how to develop a thermal printer CUPS driver, so
> please help me master.
> >
> Thanks Sebastian for your help.Now I am trying to compile
> the filter rastertorunfa.c,but
> [sunner at vtevtdj filter]$ gcc -lm -o rastertorunfa
> 'cups-config --cflags' rastertorunfa.c 'cups-config --image
> --libs'
> gcc: cups-config --cflags: No such file or directory
> gcc: cups-config --image --libs: No such file or directory
> I have install the cupsddk-1.2.3.

Those are backticks, not quotes. Note the differences:

backticks - `cups-config --cflags`
quotes    - 'cups-config --cflags'

The "backtick" key is just under the escape key on my keyboard on the top left, the "single quote" key is two keys from the "return" key on the right.