Okidata Microline 320 Turbo

Arduino control

• parallel port interface
• arduino nano with ethernet shield.

direct write

• with newline:

  echo "works just fine" | nc 192.168.1.101 1000
  

• without newline:

  echo -n "works just fine" | nc 192.168.1.101 1000
  

• printf:

  printf " keep on going" | nc 192.168.1.101 1000
  

echo to /dev/usb/lp0

• change rules so device loads R/W
• edit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
• add line:

KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", GROUP="lp", MODE="0666"

Okidata Microline 320 Control

• http://my.okidata.com/MAN390HB.NSF/MOCContents/4F6AD49DB70B93F6852562F400594112?OpenDocument
• http://www.myokidata.com/MANTR320.NSF/MOCContents/E106A4737149EFB9852561B7006D2384?OpenDocument
• http://my.okidata.com/MAN-ML320-1TURBO-N.NSF/WebBPXContents/5E8F9A6F259F89F185256A710048FD40?OpenDocument

OS X

• Systems Preferences -> Printers and Scanners -> Add New Printer
• Should show up as OKI DATA CORP ML320/1TURBO.
• Will not have software, select Oki 9-Pin Series.

LP

• lp drawing reference page https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/lp.1.html
• direct stream to LPT, via usb: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-111504.html
  • cat myTextFile.txt | lp -oraw
  • raw lp from terminal

others

• cups driver for mac http://buymelunch.org/printing/usbtb/

Windows

• generic printer - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/hr/netfxbcl/thread/bc5a1635-90ff-4dda-aed7-7e5f6493ccdb

Linux

Adding microline 320 printer

• Adding to linux system
• parallel:/dev/usblp0
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1436079&page=2

Printer queue command line tools http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch05s07.html

• lpstat -o
• lprm

Adding as Raw Printer:

• http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=35440&p=299332

Command Line printer management

• http://www.techrepublic.com/article/control-printers-in-linux-from-the-command-line/5055067

Arduino

• http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=74776.0