A driver to ESC/POS Label printers supporting the ESC/POS Command Language.
Converts CUPS Raster graphics along with a supported PPD file into a ESC/POS graphic ready to be printed directly. As of yet, there is no support for sending text to the driver.
Conversion includes support for the delivery of print jobs to the printer. Raw 8-bit graphics direct from the raster driver are also supported but not recommended.
This document and source for the driver can be found at:
http://github.com/chunlinyao/rastertoescpos
Any issues or code you'd like to contribute can be performed there.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Converted original restertotpcl file into rastertoescpos. Now using CUPS raster header 2 for finer control of page sizes. Refactoring.
Support for the following printers is included by the PPD files:
There is little variation between these printers other than resolutions, speeds, and accepted media types, so new printer models can be tested or added easily.
The CUPS image development headers are required before compilation. In Ubuntu, these can be installed with:
sudo apt-get install libcupsimage2-devThe easiest way to install from source is to run the following from the base directory:
make
sudo make installThis will install the filter and PPD files in the standard CUPS filter and PPD directories and show them in the CUPS printer selection screens.
rastertoescpos is based on the rastertotpcl driver written by Sam Lown rastertotpcl is based on the rastertotec driver written by Patick Kong (SKE s.a.r.l). rastertotec is based on the rastertolabel driver included with the CUPS printing system by Easy Software Products.
rastertoescpos is written by Chunlin Yao