22 Responses for "Star Micronics TSP600 receipt printer driver released"

1. Jason February 20th, 2008 at 6:26 am 1

   Hey Marc, Thanks for the .deb. It installed fine. What can I use to test it? I tried “lp textfile.txt” but it returned “no default destination available”. I’m running Ubuntu 7.10 and my TSP600 printer is USB attached. There are several DIP switches in the printer … maybe I have those set wrong.

2. Marc February 20th, 2008 at 8:25 am 2

   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.

3. Juan Arce August 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am 3

   I have any problem with printer star sp512, The printer install ok with .deb packages but if I send printer jobs of web pages (in Firefox 3.0) in the paper only print the number of page (ej: Page 1 of 1) in the end of page, but not print the content of the document.

   Sorry for my bad English,

   Greetings;

   Juan Arce
   Costa Rica

4. Michael Kelly September 24th, 2008 at 3:12 am 4

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

5. Eli October 14th, 2008 at 6:32 am 5

   Thanks so much for this. We’re looking for a receipt printer to run on our Ubuntu circulation desk system here at the public library and this will help tremendously.

   Thanks!

6. Stone November 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am 6

   Awesome! Thank you so much.

7. ronny January 19th, 2009 at 12:11 am 7

   hello, great post..
   what about printer epson tm-u220 series, do you have or teach me how to install on ubuntu.
   or maybe the star driver can be use for epson ??

   thanks for your attention.

   best regards
   ronny

8. Diego H. January 28th, 2009 at 6:29 am 8

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

9. Brian M February 24th, 2009 at 3:18 am 9

   I have installed the driver and it works great with a star TSP100.

   Thanks for making it available.

10. J Nivar April 28th, 2009 at 7:36 am 10

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

    Thanks for making it available.

11. Bertrand Soullier June 30th, 2009 at 8:38 am 11

    Hi,

    Your driver works great with Ubuntu 9.04 and my TSP100.

    Thanks.

12. Rickan August 13th, 2009 at 1:48 am 12

    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.

13. Michael Krog October 18th, 2009 at 11:59 am 13

    Hi.

    The package does not work for Ubuntu 9.10 because libcupsys2 changed its packagename to libcups2.

    I have changed the control in the packaged and rebuilded it.

    Any idea where I should put it?

14. Marc October 22nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm 14

    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

15. Narcis November 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 am 15

    The old package name can be downloaded from:

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libcupsys2

16. Ryan Hayward December 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm 16

    Hey Marc

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

    Thanks
    ~Ryan

17. Marc December 21st, 2009 at 10:43 am 17

    Whoops! There was a permission issue on the new file. I’ve fixed it and it should now work for everyone.

    Thanks Ryan!

18. Ryan Hayward December 21st, 2009 at 7:59 pm 18

    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

19. Hermo March 1st, 2010 at 6:51 pm 19

    This is very fantastic. Thank you very much.. I’ve been working for this in a couple of weeks but still i can’t get it work.. You driver solve my problem.. Cheer!

20. Steven April 2nd, 2010 at 12:02 am 20

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

21. Matt July 2nd, 2010 at 12:27 am 21

    Thank your so much for this driver, Im using ubuntu 10.04 Im unable to see any text but the paper feeds out

    is it possible that the ink is out, is there a printer self test for a tsp613

22. Marc July 16th, 2010 at 7:15 am 22

    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!