On Mon, 2005-08-08 13:03:10 +0200, F. Kappen <kappen@tfh-berlin.de> wrote:
> "F. Kappen" wrote:
> > Does this mean, that I can not use CUPS for my intended purpose? Or is
> > there a workaround for this problem?
>
> Thanks to Dieter Jurzitza.
>
> I followed his advice:
>
> mv /dev/lp0 /dev/lp0_org
> ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/lp0
>
> and it works. Great!
*cough* You don't seriously use this "solution", do you? Who will
correctly set-up the serial port? Serial settings are by principle
volatile. You cannot rely on them being the same after an open/close
cycle...
CUPS actually *can* use serial ports and fully allows to configure
those. I've done that for a Point of Sale printer for some time. (I
wrote a gs driver and a PPD for it to allow Postscript printout on this
dumb thingie...)
A little call to Google ("cups serial printer") brought up:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2005/07/msg00124.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2005/07/msg00125.html
which you may find interesting to read.
MfG, JBG
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