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LabelManager 280 not printing
I've managed to compile and install the CUPS drivers using this repo. Ubuntu detects the LM280 printer when it is connected and powered on.
have set the default printer
lpstat -p -d
lpoptions -d LabelManager-280
and tried running
lpr -o landscape -o PageSize=24_mm__1___Label__Auto_ docs/test.txt
Ubuntu shows that printing in progress, the finished but LM280 did nothing.
@aleksas Did you make any progress?
I am running Debian/bullseye and also want to make the Dymo LabelManager 280 work. This is what I tried:
- connected the LabelManager 280 via USB
- Installed
printer-driver-dymo
(1.4.0-9)
Via the CUPS webfronted the printer was shown:
but after adding the the printer an error was shown:
Did some research and found https://www.baitando.com/it/2017/12/12/install-dymo-labelwriter-on-headless-linux + computerlyrik/dymoprint#40 and checked the USB-ID:
❯ lsusb -d 0922:1005
Bus 003 Device 066: ID 0922:1005 Dymo-CoStar Corp. DYMO LabelManager 280
I tried to find the right PPD file which this took quite a while, but I finally found one here: https://github.com/kelvie/dymo-cups-drivers/blob/main/ppd/lm280.ppd.
I took the file and put it in /usr/share/cups/model/lm280.ppd
.
After that I identified the location of the printer and set the new driver:
❯ lpstat -v dymo
device for dymo: usb://DYMO/LabelManager%20280?serial=[SNIP]
❯ sudo lpadmin -p dymo -v "usb://DYMO/LabelManager%20280?serial=[SNIP]" -P /usr/share/cups/model/lm280.ppd
lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.
❯ sudo cupsenable dymo
❯ sudo cupsaccept dymo
First I tried this, where two "lines" were printed in the wrong orientation:
❯ echo Hello > test.txt
❯ lp -d dymo test.txt
request id is dymo-1119 (0 file(s))
Here the only one single character was printed in the wrong orientation:
❯ echo H | lp -d dymo
request id is dymo-1119 (0 file(s))
I tried a few days back.
Today I came back to this issue and wanted to test your approach, so I went to find lpr
which was missing on my system.
I found several versions of that binary:
❯ apt-file search lpr | grep -e "bin/lpr$"
cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr
lpr: /usr/bin/lpr
lprng: /usr/bin/lpr
But only the one in cups-bsd
has the option "-o" (see: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/cups-bsd/lpr.1.en.html, which also took a while to find out). So I then installed cups-bsd
and tried lpr
:
❯ echo Test | lpr -P dymo -o landscape -o PageSize=24_mm__1___Label__Auto_
A label was "printed", but unfortunately there was nothing on it.
I then checked man lp(1) from cups-client
(2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2) and found
-o orientation-requested=4 Prints the job in landscape (rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise).
So I finally tried this, where finally a label was printed in the right orientation 💪🏾 :
❯ echo Test | lp -d dymo -o orientation-requested=4
All of the test labels are 112mm long. I need to find out how to make them shorter.