[cups.general] How to send jobs to a SCSI printer with cups?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Sep 9 05:06:37 PDT 2004


Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Does the scsi backend use SG (SCSI Generic) device files to send the 
> jobs to a printer?

Yes.

> I have been unable to find device file names to use for the backend.
> 
> Also my goal is to be able to send PCL to this printer:
> 
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00

Check your dmesg output to find out which device to use.  At some
point we may update the SCSI backend to work like the USB backend,
where the device ID is mapped to a SCSI address/device for you...

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