Well, if I use lpoptions to set star as default, I can use lpr and suchlike to print. Here’s a page printed from Okular (PDF viewer).Ĭan I sent text to it directly? Which /dev is it? (Please keep in mind the ribbon was dead and has been resurrected with WD40, which mobilises the ink and lets the ink from the unused edges move to where it can be useful, but which I may have done a bit heavily…) Then I went to use the printer via the GUI and the test page looked fine (scan thresholded): Users lp floppy dialout audio video cdrom plugdev power netdev scannerĪnd we can see the lp group is in there - probably important! So, let’s just check what groups the user belongs to: $ groups Yep! It’s using some kind of default font that the printer is printing like graphics - it is not using the native printer fonts, like you would get in DOS if you just copied a text file to the printer. Let’s print this very file (scan thresholded): $ lp -d star this_very_file.txt -v usb://Unknown/Printer - this is the deVice the printer is attached to.-D - gives a readable description in quotes “Star …”.-m drv:///etc - specifies the driver to use.-p star - gives the name of the printer that we will use to specify it in print commands.OK, I’m not familiar with that ‘drv:///’ notation, but let’s try using lpadmin with that: # lpadmin -p star -m drv:///sample.drv/epson9.ppd -D "Star NX-1000 as Epson 9-pin" -E -v usb://Unknown/Printer But the NX-1000 is closely compatible with the old Epson 9-pin drivers, so… # lpinfo -m | grep -i Epson | grep -i pinĭrv:///sample.drv/epson9.ppd Epson 9-Pin Seriesĭrv:///sample.drv/epson24.ppd Epson 24-Pin Series Gutenprint.5.2://star-lp_8/expert Star LaserPrinter 8 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11 Next, what drivers do we have available? # lpinfo -m | grep -i star OK, so it seems to be on ‘direct usb://Unknown/Printer’. First, where is the printer attached? I have the printer turned on, plugged into the USB converter and the converter plugged into the computer. Then as regular user (prompt = $): $ links -g but CUPS web interface does not seem to work with browser ( links -g) in terminal. Please note that this is just what I did - may not be the most efficient! May have redundant steps.Īs superuser (prompt = #): # chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups The printer is an old dot matrix machine (Star Micronics NX-1000, ), and I am using a parallel-to-USB convertor P/N: 810-00 and S/N: 02963. Installing a printer from the text terminal on Slackware.
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