Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 07 Sep 2014 at 00:05:33 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:

> I have a Brainydeal receipt printer made by Zijiang.  I have
> downloaded and setup their driver. No Luck.
> The message I receive from CUPS is:
> Processing - "The printer is not responding."
> 
> When I installed the driver, it clearly indicated that it was for Linux.
> 
> Here is the driver.
> 
> *PPD-Adobe:             "4.3"
> *FormatVersion:         "4.3"
> *FileVersion:           "1.1"
> *LanguageVersion:       English
> *LanguageEncoding:      ISOLatin1
> *PCFileName:            "POS58.ppd"
> *Manufacturer:          "Zijiang"
> *Product:               "(zj-58)"
> *1284DeviceID:          "MFG:Zijiang;CMD:Zijiang;MDL:ZJ-58;CLS:PRINTER;"
> *cupsVersion:           1.1
> *cupsManualCopies:      True
> *cupsModelNumber:       58
> *cupsFilter:            "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertozj58"
> *ModelName:             "ZJ-58"
> *ShortNickName:         "ZJ-58"
> *NickName:              "POS58"

How is the printer connected to the computer?

Please supply the outputs of

  lpstat -t
  ls -l /usr/lib/cups/filter
  ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend
  ls -l /usr/share/cups/model
  ls -l /etc/cups/ppd