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michaelrsweet / lprint

A Label Printer Application
https://www.msweet.org/lprint
Apache License 2.0
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Support for BIXOLON Label Printers #78

Open zdohnal opened 1 year ago

zdohnal commented 1 year ago

This is the transferred issue from OpenPrinting/CUPS #490 to track the possible future support for BIXOLON printers - please check the CUPS issue for previous information.

@sahayap will try to convert their current classic driver into PR acceptable by LPrint project.

sahayap commented 1 year ago

Dear @michaelrsweet @zdohnal Thank you for the response, If we go for LPrint based, we have to develop our driver again, it is a time consuming process. Since our driver is based on CUPS filters, can't we just integrate our filter driver into rastertolabel source code and send the DIFF and PPD files, is it not enough to support our driver by CUPS? its a easy and faster way to include our printers supported by CUPS.

Please clear me.

Thank you With Regards, Sahaya P

sahayap commented 1 year ago

Dear @michaelrsweet @zdohnal , Greetings, We have done an internal review to port our driver to LPrint, as we have no experience with LPRINT and PAPPL, it is challenging for us and we are also worried about the porting time.

We think we should develop a new driver based on PAPPL. Isn't it?

we have couple of questions as well, Can we use the PPD file for PAPPL? How long does it usually take to convert a classic raster printer filter to printer application?

Thank you With Regards, Sahaya P

michaelrsweet commented 1 year ago

@sahayap In answer to your questions:

Can we use the PPD file for PAPPL?

No. PAPPL (and IPP Everywhere) does not use PPD files - they are an artifact of how I had to do printer drivers in CUPS because (at the time I wrote CUPS) Unix/Linux used a PostScript print workflow.

How long does it usually take to convert a classic raster printer filter to printer application?

A day at most for a typical CUPS raster driver. I can certainly help you with the porting effort, and if you can supply me with a printer I can do more in-depth testing/development as needed.

sahayap commented 1 year ago

Dear @michaelrsweet Thank you very much for your kind response.

A day at most for a typical CUPS raster driver. I can certainly help you with the porting effort, and if you can supply me with a printer I can do more in-depth testing/development as needed.

You mean, if we send you our rastertobixolon source and PPD files then you can do it us, correct? If so, we are more than happy to provide you with our source and printer.

Please let us know the address to ship our printer to.

Thank you, With Regards, Sahaya P

michaelrsweet commented 1 year ago

@sahayap I'll send you shipping information separately.

I can't promise a timeframe for me to do all of the work...

michaelrsweet commented 1 year ago

@sahayap Can you provide me with an email to contact you?

sahayap commented 1 year ago

Dear @michaelrsweet Thank you so much for your positive response.

I can't promise a timeframe for me to do all of the work Sure, Please take your own time, however, please let us know timeline for the worst case, so that we can inform our customers the availability LPrint support for our printers.

Can you provide me with an email to contact you? my official email id is sahaya@bixolon.com

Thank you With Regards, Sahaya P

michaelrsweet commented 7 months ago

Following up; received driver source code but still don't have a printer to test with...