[cups.general] Thermal Printer

[Till Kamppeter]

Try the instructions here:

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPSprinter.html

This will let your Windows server emulate a PostScript printer. Then you 
can point a CUPS queue with a generic PostScript PPD to your printer.

    Till

Tyndyll wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>>
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