Thermal Printer

[Tyndyll]

> Mainly this depends on the printer; if there is a CUPS driver, it
> should be as simple as sharing the printer on the Windows system

I think this is the issue - I don't think that there is a CUPs driver (which I am assuming is the PPD file?) for this printer. I have the printer shared on Windows.

Just to add some more information which I thought of on the way home. Its a Toshiba (TEC) SX4 thermal printer that also does RFID. My aim however is just to print a PDF to it, which I have successfully done in windows.

If there is no official driver for this, is there another way around it? From what I read I don't think I can print directly to the Windows server and have its drivers sort it out?

Any information helpful. Sorry if this seems particularly newbie-ish

Tyndyll


> Tyndyll wrote:
> > ...
> > I have the logic sorted, what I don't have is the CUPs sorted. The
> > printer is connected to a Windows server and to the best of my
> > knowledge does not use postscript. Is there a way of creating the PPD
> > file to do this, or am I just out of luck?
>
> Mainly this depends on the printer; if there is a CUPS driver, it
> should be as simple as sharing the printer on the Windows system
> (and preferably add the TCP/IP Printing service so your Windows
> system accepts the jobs via LPD) and then setting up a queue on the
> CUPS system pointing to the Windows system.
>
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> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>