namcoder / xp58

CUPS filter for thermal printer Xprinter XP58 IIH - xp58 driver

Deprecated in favor of zj-58

Please use that instead!

XP58

CUPS filter for thermal printer Xprinter XP58IIH.

First of I would like to give a big shoutout to @klirichek for making the filters for Zjiang. Since the hardware in both the machines are basically the same he did 99% of the work for me.

I've only tested this on my Mac (Yosemite 10.10.2), but I can't imagine it won't work on Linux as well.

Installation

To get this up and working, just clone the repository into a folder and run make.

You need to make sure that you have cups installed. If you are compiling on linux, you probably need to run sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev to get the required header files. These are included on MacOSX.

After that you should have the binary file for the filter, and you can either manually place them;

The xp-58.ppd should live in /usr/share/cups/model/xprinter.
And the filter (rastertoxp58) should on macosx live in /usr/libexec/cups/filter or on (some) linux based systems: /usr/lib/cups/filter.

Or you can run the corresponding installation file for your system.

sudo sh ./install-mac
sudo sh ./install-linux (not tested, but should work)

Cups

Go to http://localhost:631/ and follow the instructions for activating the WebGUI.

After that you can follow the Linux Driver instructions that are shipped with the device. Or download them from here.

Notes

I'm not great at C. I've just modified the script provided by @klirichek and made it work on MacOSX. It probably won't work on Linux