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It should be possible to enable the serial port as a printer and print direct to it, but I found this produced cutter errors (flashing power light) and no cut. | It should be possible to enable the serial port as a printer and print direct to it, but I found this produced cutter errors (flashing power light) and no cut. | ||
* I didn't need to use the Ruby script. I just made sure the serial port was at 9600bps, 8N1, RTS/CTS flow control enabled (stty sane </dev/ttyUSBwhatever, then stty crtscts </dev/ttyUSBwhatever) and then did cat filename.hpgl >/dev/ttyUSBwhatever. --21:49, 5 July 2011 (UTC) | |||
The following file was generated by inkskape for a star shape. This works. | The following file was generated by inkskape for a star shape. This works. | ||
