Comments on: Star Micronics TSP600 receipt printer driver released

By: Stone

Stone — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:42:31 +0000

Awesome! Thank you so much.

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:32:04 +0000

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!

By: Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:12:50 +0000

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

By: Juan Arce

Juan Arce — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:40:53 +0000

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

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:25:56 +0000

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.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:26:21 +0000

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.