Forum: Printers from other manufacturers

Use the pbm2lwxl tools. Set resolution to 300dpi.

You need to make a small modification to the USB driver. These steps were reported working.

1. Unpack linux-2.4.20

2. Change to /path/to/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb

3. Edit printer.c

4. About line 880, there's the detection code. There's a check to see if the transfer type is 'bulk'. I just commented out this check. Note that according to the USB spec that I read, the 315 violates the usb LP protocol: Before:

if ((epd->bmAttributes&USB_ENDPOINT_XFERTYPE_MASK)!=
 USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_BULK)
 continue;

After:

/*if ((epd->bmAttributes&USB_ENDPOINT_XFERTYPE_MASK)!=
 USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_BULK)
 continue; */

5. Configure/compile as usual.

There are some white lines in some output. Barcodes worked fine, the text below showed some white lines. It should be fine for labels.