On 08 Dec 19:52, Ted Harding wrote:
The printer is to be connected to a laptop via a USB cable. So all I want to do is set up printing on the laptop so that when I issue a command
lpr filename.ps
the PS file gets printed by being sent straight to the printer over the USB port.
So how do I set this up as a raw printer? There seems to be no route to this (that I can detect) via the above "assistant".
Maybe there is a direct method using CUPS-oriented commands from the command-line, but I can't manage to suss that out either!
Any help (especially from people who have done this successfully for themselves) will be highly appreciated!
Fire up a web browser... point it to https://localhost:631/
then edit the printer config in there, you'll want to modify the printer to be of manufacturer "Raw" with "Raw Queue" as the model.
Set it as the default and then you'll be able to use:
lp filename.ps
Job done, time for a cuppa.