[cups] doubts about cutter option

[Michael Sweet]

Osvaldo,

> On Jan 23, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Osvaldo Parra <bady.sir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> hi guys, I bought a chinese 58mm kiosk thermal printer on aliexpress, 0
> support and 0 documentation, after a few days of google I found some
> generic(or not?) drivers what worked with printer, the printer has auto
> cutter but it never triggers, only on self test page it does.
> 
> drivers contain a ppd file with out "cutter" parameter, I read in here
> <https://www.cups.org/doc/ref-ppdcfile.html#Cutter>about that parameter so
> I add in ppd file the line:
> 
> *Cutter Yes/True (both tested)
> 
> 
> but the printer doesnt cut
> 
> any clue?, this "cutter" parameter sends some kind of esc/pos code?, where
> can i see the "source code" of this parameter?


The driver needs to support the option and send the appropriate command to the printer.

(some printers have an out-of-band setting to enable the cutter at the end of each page/job, without the ability to actually control it from the driver...)

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer