Creating dummy ASCII driver for thermal printer (Star TSP600)

[Luis Da Costa]

> 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
>


Hi Helge,

Thanks for the help. But as I already said, those drivers are only for the Ethernet and USB version and I've got a Parallel/Serial version which is not compactible. I've already tried those drivers and they give me problems with the rasterstar filter, and when they don't, they simply don't print...

I have better results with the Raw Queue drivers that with those ones :S

Thanks in Advance,
Luis Da Costa