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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating Printing Program in bash Post 302606068 by bganse on Friday 9th of March 2012 01:06:36 PM
Old 03-09-2012
Creating Printing Program in bash

HI

I am trying to create a bash script to print whatever i type in


It has to have these below to define the size of the label and what size to print the text
Code:
N
q609
A100,10,0,5,2,2,N," "
P1

It has to be sent to below
Code:
> /dev/usblp0

So what it has to be is

Written Text ----> sent to printer

and i want to be able to write what i want to print


PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!Smilie

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jetpipe(8)																jetpipe(8)

NAME
jetpipe - bind a printer device to a tcp port SYNOPSIS
jetpipe <printerdevice> <portnumber> DESCRIPTION
jetpipe will bind a printer device to a given portnumber so the printer can be accessed through the JetDirect protocol from a remote client. EXAMPLE
/usr/sbin/jetpipe /dev/usblp0 9100 The above commandline will bind the USB printer on /dev/usblp0 to port 9100 where it can be acessed through the JetDirect protocol from a cups client SEE ALSO
cups-deviced(8), cups-driverd(8), cups-lpd(8), cups-polld(8), cupsd.conf(5) cupsd(8) AVAILABILITY
jetpipe is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp (link to URL https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp) . AUTHOR
copyright 2006 Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later ver- sion. Oliver Grawert 20061206 jetpipe(8)
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