printing filePro to Datamax printer

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:52:53PM -0400, Butch Ammon wrote:
> I don't know if this will get posted to the filePro list or not, but I
> have a question about those small Datamax label printers. How can you
> get filePro to print to them from SCO Unix? Is there a special Unix
> serial printer device driver? I want to setup a label in filePro and
> have it be sent to the Datamax printer, and it just flatly ignores any
> print request I send to it.

The Datamaxes require special formatting of the data you send to them;
they will not print anything at all if you send them just raw ASCII.

Do you have an already formatted Datamax output format with the
necessary special strings as print codes?

If so, then yes, you just set up an lp queue with the appropriate
/dev/ttyXX as it's -v devices, using lpadmin.

Cheers,
-- jra
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