Peter Alcibiades wrote:

Thanks for a most helpful reply.

Meanwhile I have looked into the Linuxant wrapper, which also seems confined to network drivers, and have found the potentially useful ddiwrapper, which seems a possible if problematic solution. The only posting on experience so far reports getting it to install, and apparently using the driver, but failing to obtain any output at the printer.

You didn't specify the printer brand but on the off chance that this is helpful, here it is

http://www.pos.epson-europe.com/support/drivers.htm