I have a Datacard CP60 card printer that has been in service for several years on my Windows computers. Now I need it to work with my Linux machines.
[by the way, be warned and please forgive me; I'm pretty much a newbie]
http://www.datacard.com/openplatformdriver indicates that Datacard offers Linux support for all CP series printers.
From
http://www.datacard.com/id-card-prin...-and-downloads I downloaded the Open Platform Driver, as well as the Open Platform Driver Guide and Printer Guide and the FAQ.
I followed the driver installation instructions as painstakingly as I could [but remember, I'm a noob]. It seemed to be a straightforward matter of copying files to certain locations, and starting up a service or two, making a few changes to some settings.
Their Open Platform Driver Guide is from 2007, hasn't been updated since. The instructions use SUSE in the examples and provides a few distribution-specific details in the appendix with alternate file locations, etc., but the only Ubuntu versions in that old Driver Guide are 6.06 and 7.04. So I am not exactly certain that all the paths to file locations were accurate in my case, running Linux Mint 10, which is based on Ubuntu Maverick (or so I read).
I did manage to [albeit apparently incorrectly] complete the driver and USB utility and bi-directional service installation process, and the CUPS service did see the printer and everything went seemingly well following along with the manual all the way up until trying to print a test card.
Running the test scripts in the manual from the terminal resulted in "lp: Unsupported format 'application/openofficeps'!" Using OpenOffice Writer, setting up a document the size of a card and trying to print to the CP60 resulted in "Error While Printing".
I have been in contact with the vendor's support person and he has recommended bypassing the open platform driver altogether and having me try to print a text file directly to the IP address of the printer. He says the card layout can be set on the printer, all I really need is to get a text file sent to the printer's IP address.
So here are my questions:
1. has anyone out there had any success with a Datacard CP60 on Linux Mint 10? Or any other distro?
2. how do I configure Linux Mint 10 to print directly to an IP address? Do I need a certain printer driver?
