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1. #E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac for free#
2. #E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac pdf#
3. #E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac install#
4. #E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac serial#
5. #E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac update#

Also, I couldn’t have done all this without the support of Reed Zhao. ( Seeing as I use their logo prominently up there, I should totes acknowledge that “Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation”. CUPS is pretty complex, and is doing things in the background while you wait.

Also, there’s a short delay (maybe 10–20 s) between selecting Print and the printer coming to life.

#E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac serial#

I haven’t covered the intricacies of setting up serial port connections here maybe another time. My test image came out like this (iffy scan, sorry): Not the best rendition, but not bad for a $30 receipt printer.

#E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac pdf#

If you’re fairly sure your printer will be supported, try this scaled PDF version of the Raspberry Pi Logo: raspberry-pi-logo. Printed and scanned, it came out like this: You could print the self test page, but it’s long and boring. The default assume your local standard paper size which —be it A4, Letter, or whatever — will not be what you want here. You can choose longer prints, but not wider. This is just the longest strip it will print in one ‘page’ if your print is shorter, it won’t waste extra paper. You do want to set the media size to at least 58 Ã- 210 mm. To tell the system about paper sizes, right click on the printer’s icon, and change the printer settings:Ī test page might print properly now, but you should probably go into Printer Options first: Most printers expect paper wider than 58 mm, but mini-printers can’t do that. You don’t have to, but either way, Apply the changes.Īnd there it is, registered as a printer! Printer Options I changed the name from the default ZJ-58 to the more unixly zj58. Here, I’m really pleased that the driver is for a Zijiang unit, as it’s conveniently at the end of the list. If the above doesn’t apply, your printer might have an known ID, or show up as a serial port. (All of this might need to have been preceded by sudo usermod -a -G lp piĪnd a logout or reboot I did say this was for the slightly desperate …) Which suggests that usb://Unknown/Printer might work too. Another option might be looking at the output of sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb Look only at the the “Device URI” bit please) I had to resort to this in the Enter URI option: (hey, this image doesn’t quite match the flow.

#E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac update#

Update (for the slightly desperate): In the land of “Things have changed!”, my Catex printer isn’t/wasn’t showing up at all. The POS5890U shows up as “Unknown” on my USB port, as Linux doesn’t know the name of this device from its USB ID.

Select the Add icon, and the New Printer window opens: Open up the printer settings window (Preferences → Print Settings):

#E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac install#

You’ll need the system-config-printer package: sudo apt install -y system-config-printer cups Now read and follow the Building & Installing section of the README, and do what it says. The driver is meant for a ZiJiang ZJ-58 printer, and lives here on Github: klirichek/zj-58. If you’re not sure, try it with a small test image, and be ready by the power switch … Getting and building the driver If you have a manual for your printer, check it to see if it prints bitmaps by sending a three byte header of 29 118 48 (or 1D 76 30 in hexadecimal). (Roughly that of an Epson FX-80 for image commands, if you care.)

It also works on Ubuntu on my laptop, and should work (though untried) on Mac OS. This might be my last post on mini-printers, as I’ve found a driver that just works with CUPS on Raspberry Pi.

#E pos 80mm thermal printer driver for mac for free#

If any manufacturer wants to see if their printer works, send me one ( I’m easy to find) for free and I’ll check it out and add it here. Update:build instructions have changed, 2019.