I am trying to develop a driver for a small printer which will be used in a Point of Sale (POS) kiosk. This driver will be GPLed and released to the general public.
The printer, called the 8900, uses a standard set of PCL commands over a serial interface.
I am not an experienced hacker I am afraid, perhaps that will become obvious, however I feel I can get this driver created by using the OMNI printer framework and cusomizing it.
My understanding is that the first step is to create a new XML file from the one that already exists. I have begun to modify that file.
I have read some material about the OMNI driver but I am still confused, how does it work? Is the driver already extant and simply downloaded and palced in the right place under linux and then it operates? The information on the web site for the printer is not very clear I am afraid and I can make little sense of it. Perhaps a discussion can occur hear to answer some basic questions regarding the driver.
Thanks, Jeremiah
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I have uploaded a new document to the files section. It is called OmniArchitecture-0.1.pdf.
I plan for this document to describe the process of adding devices to the omni driver. It should answer all of your questions eventually.
Lets discuss this on the developer mailing list
at omniprint-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
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Hello there,
I am trying to develop a driver for a small printer which will be used in a Point of Sale (POS) kiosk. This driver will be GPLed and released to the general public.
The printer, called the 8900, uses a standard set of PCL commands over a serial interface.
I am not an experienced hacker I am afraid, perhaps that will become obvious, however I feel I can get this driver created by using the OMNI printer framework and cusomizing it.
My understanding is that the first step is to create a new XML file from the one that already exists. I have begun to modify that file.
I have read some material about the OMNI driver but I am still confused, how does it work? Is the driver already extant and simply downloaded and palced in the right place under linux and then it operates? The information on the web site for the printer is not very clear I am afraid and I can make little sense of it. Perhaps a discussion can occur hear to answer some basic questions regarding the driver.
Thanks, Jeremiah
Hello,
I have uploaded a new document to the files section. It is called OmniArchitecture-0.1.pdf.
I plan for this document to describe the process of adding devices to the omni driver. It should answer all of your questions eventually.
Lets discuss this on the developer mailing list
at omniprint-developer@lists.sourceforge.net