Development of printer driver (how hard)?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Feb 4 09:44:49 PST 2005


vgjunkie at gmail.com wrote:
> ...
> Has anybody ever tried to develop a linux driver for these CR-80
> cards? How difficult is it to develop a driver based on the type of
> printer (SCSI) to produce 2 sided (front and back) ID cards?
 > ...

If the printer uses the standard SCSI print command, then the only
thing you need to worry about is converting raster data to CR-80
commands.  Depending on the printer, that may be easy to moderate.

If you need to use custom SCSI commands, then things are a little
trickier, but you can probably start with the current SCSI backend
and rework it to use the proper commands.

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