Creating dummy ASCII driver for thermal printer (Star TSP600)

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Sat Jan 26 04:36:12 PST 2013


Luis Da Costa wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am new here, so if this is not the right place to post this please tell
> me.
> 
> I bought a thermal Star TSP600 for my POS installation. Normally this
> device has a official website (licensed under GPLv2 if I'm not wrong,
> which is pretty cool and useful), but it only works (under Gnu/Linux and
> Mac, not on Windows) with the USB and Ethernet version... and as you may
> already imagine my version is a Serial one.
> 
> Long story short. After a long time understanding how all of this should
> work, I've found a way to print. Simply by doing this :
> 
> echo "Hello World" >> /dev/ttyUSB0
> 
> It works nice (with no accents as expected) but this isn't a solution for
> a POS installation since I need the software (proprietary) to work with
> this printer (by using Cups as you may already understood).
> 
> Under Fedora 18 I've managed to make it print something under cups using
> one of those generic drivers : - PostScript
> - Raw Queue
> - Others from other printers randomly chosen.
> 
> After installing them with one of the generic drivers, I've tested with
> gedit and it would print, sometimes slowly, sometimes faster, but in all
> the cases I couldn't even understand what was printed (the best I got was
> one of the drivers that printed in big fonts all the settings used for
> printing like the font used, the size used etc..).
> 
> So my question is (as I know programming, and need to have this printer
> working until the end of this month, and I am trying to not use Windows,
> since it works in there perfectly), is it possible to create a dummy
> driver for this kind of situations ? Or is it possible to edit the
> original ppd from this printer in order to add the serial support ?
> 
> If yes, could anyone help me do this ? (Or just help me find a better
> solution that would work under cups in order for the POS software to
> recognize the printer and use it).
> 
> Thanks in Advance for all the help. And sorry for my horrible English.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Luis Da Costa

Look at 
http://www.starasia.com/productshow.asp?id=82
for Linux drivers.

Helge





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