How to create/define serial port for printer on Ubuntu?

[BobMCT]

Certainly a Linux server question: I'm running Ubuntu 6.06.1 server edition (no Xserver/GUI) and am trying to attache, configure and use a serially attached printer.

I've tried both MAKEDEV and mknod in detail both with no success.

Can someone PLEASE advise how one goes about accomplishing this feat?

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

What kind of printer is it? Serial printers must be very unusual nowadays??

Anyway, I doubt you would need to go to the mknod level... the serial devices will already exist, e.g. /dev/ttyS0 for COM1, /dev/ttyS1 for COM2, etc.

Do you have CUPS installed? If so try checking the documentation to see whether it supports serial printers. You'll probably end up doing something like:

[tt]lpadmin -p queuename -v /dev/ttyS0 ...[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[BobMCT]

Serial unusual? Certainly. But for specialized, apparently not.

The printer is a Dymo SE300 which is an ASCII label printer with a serial (DB9) interface. I've plugged this into the COM1 port and a search through the /dev directory's numerous tty files shows that this MAY have been assigned to /dev/ttyS2 (strange because its the only serial device enabled/attached).

If I cat a string to >/dev/ttyS2 I do get some output albeit at an extremely S-L-O-W pace.

I will try experimenting with the lpadmin utility now - thanks. But, if you know of anything about this particular series of printers, please post?

Thank you,

Bob

 

[Annihilannic]

From Answer ID 354 on the Dymo support site:

https://global.dymo.com/enUS/RNW/RNW.html

DYMO also offers a BETA SDK for Linux/Unix. This SDK consists of CUPS drivers and several command line script samples. For more information on acquiring the BETA SDK for Linux/Unix, contact DYMO support by clicking on the Ask a Question tab above.

That might be useful?

Annihilannic.

 

[BobMCT]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I have the BETA SDK for Linux/Unix on its way.

Bob