[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

[Jeff Robins]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan at coneharvesters.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Jeff Robins wrote:
>> I'm not sure if that will work.  CUPS doesn't have a driver for the
>> device and it's not really a printer.
>> It just uses the USB printer class.  It's used to cut shapes into or
>> out of paper.  This includes
>> moving the blade up and down.  I looked at the program and I thinks
>> its sending G-code, which is
>> used for CNC work.
>
> CUPS has a rule to send raw binary data directly to the device without
> interpreting it first.  If this device emulates a printer at the USB
> level, it ought to work. At worst, you may have to add the -oraw option
> or add a rule to /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs to force cups to treat
> the data as "raw binary" (instead of text, for example) so it's sent
> directly to the printer instead of being rasterized first.
>
>>>> Dan
>

USBLP worked for getting the Wishblade detected.  If I can get the
rest of it working, then I'll try popen().

Thank you all for the help.

--Jeff