Re: [Ltib] Reg - Printer Support for IMX31

[giovanniangeli]

Hi Sivakumar.R.J,

I have fronted something similar for a project that is in standby, at the 
moment.
The way I tried is to use "gutenprint" suite of drivers.
I arm-cross-compiled it and started testing. The problem is that is very 
poorely documented
for a direct usage (without CUPS infrastructure or GIMP).

It could be useful for you to look at:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1649374&forum_id=4359

The best thing, I think, is to focus on a family of printers and use the driver
from the gutenprint package.

Bye.

Stuart Hughes said:
> Hi Sivakumar.R.J,
>
> Currently there is no package in LTIB intended to provide printing services.
>
> Most people on Desktops use cups as you say, but this is quite big and I'm 
> not sure how cross
> compile friendly it is.
>
> Depending on what you're trying to achieve, it may be better to try to use a 
> remote printer
> rather than install a package that knows how to print to a huge database of 
> local printers.
> Maybe you could try adding the old unix LPR package?  Another option maybe to 
> try smbprint from
> samba (which is in LTIB), I'm not sure what that needs though.
>
> Maybe someone else knows of a good small remote printing package for embedded?
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:35 +0530, R.J.Sivakumar wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>            As we are working in USB driver of IMX31ADS in support of printer,
>> we couldn't find any resources in the BSP for testing printer.When i come  
>> across some linux
>> printer forum,i came to know CUPS should be installed for  supporting lp 
>> program which is not
>> there in the BSP.Is there any package in  the BSP will support the printer 
>> device? .Is Busy
>> Box consists of any  commands for it?.Please give us a suggestion.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
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