Post #2365494
2026-04-09 08:56 UTC
@markno@mastodon.online but it should be possible to just feed it ASCII text via USB. It wouldn't even need a specific driver on Linux.
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@markno@mastodon.online 2026-04-09 09:04
@bonkers@nerdculture.de yes, this is true. You can cat a text file to the port it’s attached to and i believe this is what most people do in this situation. I’m wanting to treat it like any other printer that you can send a document to from your normal text editor. (I don’t know enough about apple/linux to know if you can intercept that output, strip the escape codes from it and pipe it to the lpr port which could be another possible solution… )