On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Dan Fandrich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Jeff Robins wrote: >> I'm not sure if that will work. CUPS doesn't have a driver for the >> device and it's not really a printer. >> It just uses the USB printer class. It's used to cut shapes into or >> out of paper. This includes >> moving the blade up and down. I looked at the program and I thinks >> its sending G-code, which is >> used for CNC work. > > CUPS has a rule to send raw binary data directly to the device without > interpreting it first. If this device emulates a printer at the USB > level, it ought to work. At worst, you may have to add the -oraw option > or add a rule to /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs to force cups to treat > the data as "raw binary" (instead of text, for example) so it's sent > directly to the printer instead of being rasterized first. > >>>> Dan >
USBLP worked for getting the Wishblade detected. If I can get the rest of it working, then I'll try popen(). Thank you all for the help. --Jeff
