alt Hacker Newslong shot: I’ve got a USB-based ESC/POS printer, but couldn’t get my mac nor RPI to recognize it as a printer through CUPS.
The printer shows up in the USB tree, but (maybe?) needs a driver to be recognized as a “printer”? I was trying to follow tutorials that treated it as a line printer, but unsuccessfully.
Any idea how much luck I will have if I try this out? Does this project rely on working drivers? Or does it handle the raw USB communication?
It’s an IBM-branded Type 4610 Model TF6.
Some of these show up as USB to serial converters and while you do need appropriate kernel drivers for that, they'll never be recognized as a "printer". Still usable though.