Thank you for the advice. I will search for those ones and see what I can find.
I still need to solve the printer issue. So far it looks like receipt printers use very simple interfaces. Somebody engineered ppd files for Zjian printers for Linux, but I don't know if the OpenBSD kernel would interface with them. They are certainly not in the USB Product/Vendor database of the kernel. Maybe they would show as Unknown Printers? john slee <indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote: > +1 for Symbol here. Have used them in factory environments and I can???t > recall one ever failing. > > If buying used, be sure you can get the documentation for it, as these are > often configurable (eg. continuous vs. triggered scanning) via scanning > special barcodes. > > John > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 07:20 Erling Westenvik <erling.westen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 08:47:48PM +0200, Rubén Llorente wrote: >> > Anybody in the list has good (or bad) experiences with USB Barcode >> > Scanners? Which models with? >> >> I have a working barcode scanner, Symbol Technologies LS2208, that >> shows up in dmesg as: >> >> uhidev4 at uhub3 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "?Symbol >> Technologies, Inc, 2002 Symbol Bar Code Scanner" rev 2.00/2.01 addr 4 >> uhidev4: iclass 3/1 >> ukbd1 at uhidev4: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes, country code 33 >> wskbd2 at ukbd1 mux 1 >> wskbd2: connecting to wsdisplay0 >> >> It's an old model, manufactured in 2005, and I can't say that I've used >> it extensively, but it seems to work well with at least "normal" >> barcodes typically found on groceries, books (ISBN), receipts and so on. >> There are barcodes that it cannot read but I have not investigated the >> matter. The manufacturer still exists. >> >> Good luck! >> >> Erling >> >> > -- OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: BB5A C2A2 2CAD ACB7 D50D C081 1DB9 6FC4 5AB7 92FA
