Star Micronics TSP600 receipt printer driver released

Hi Jason,

I’m willing to bet that you don’t need to mess with the dip switches. I’ve got mine on the defaults.

To configure and test your printer, point your browser to http://localhost:631/ It’s the CUPS config utility for your comp. You should be able to print a test page from there. If you would instead like to test with the command line “lp” set of utilities, you’ll need to specify the printer like so:
“lpr -P Star_TSP600_ textfile.txt”

Keep in mind with the above command both that
A) I’m using the newer “lpr” instead of “lp”
B) “Star_TSP600_” is the name of the printer as defined in the CUPS config. It may be different for your setup.

Let me know if that helps.

Great Job. Thanks a million marc… Saved me alot of hardship!! Cheers

Awesome! Thank you so much.

I have ready install the drivers, but when i sent a job puts the printer in disable and don’t print anything

I have installed the driver and it works great with a star Modelo TSP143U.

Thanks for making it available.

Great! I just downloaded the deb file. I have a TSP 700 and was thinking about how to get it working. I’ll get back after installing it.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for fixing the package for 9.10! If you email me the new deb file, I’ll host it in the same place as the existing driver and post a link to it up top.

-Marc

Hey Marc

Fantastic job! the link for the new 9.10 is broken. Can you fix it?

Thanks
~Ryan

Awesome, thanks alot! What pos system are you using for your customer. I am having an issue with the orginal version of the driver in 8.04. It installs fine and works great as a system printer, but inside of OpenBravo POS it won’t print. In the logs give me a rastastar filter error 1 output. Any ideas?

~Ryan
OSCanada

I have downloaded the second package and will try it on Debian Squeeze.

I’m very glad to see so many people getting good use out of this driver! Keep it up!

@Matt, there could be a few different problems causing the blank paper feed out. To print the test page, use your localhost CUPS utility (http://localhost:631/). If your printer is configured through there, it has a very easy “Print Test Page” button (or something to that effect).

If the test page prints fine, then you have a problem in the data you’re sending to the printer. That could be any number of things, but the first place I would look is the formatting. Try varying your formatting to get different output (i.e. use different font-sizes, etc). Your best tool is to use the command line utilities like lpr to diagnose the problem.

@Ryan, we’re using a homebrew piece of software for the POS. In retrospect, maybe not the best decision, but we needed some very custom functionality, and it’s been happily chugging along for 3 years now. How do you like OpenBravo?

Thanks!

Sweetness! Downloaded the deb… and dpkg -i and a little localhost:631/admin work… and POS receipts are kicking out!!!
Ubuntu 10.04| xTuple 3.5.1
Getting print requests from Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS/Redhat, SuSE; Macs; and WinDoze XP;Vista/7).
Good job guys!!!
Chazsani

Just installed this. Configured in minutes with a TSP600. AWESOME!@ You rock my socks, sir. Much appreciation.

Hi Cesar,

I don’t have a 64-bit driver, unfortunately. My build machine is 32 only. If anyone would like to compile a 64-bit version, I’d be happy to post it here for people to find.

However. There is a message of cupsys not being present however, and the driver is removed by Ubuntu Software Centre. USC wont install the deb because of the cupsys issue.