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Just wanted to share my experience after a little trying:

I just bought a couple of thermo printers for a hand full of $$$ over at ebay. Sadly they got only IR and Serial connection, so I thought, I couldnt get it to run anyway... i bought a Serial to USB adapter cable and USB mothermother. So I thought, maybe i should try to connect that to my N900. I did, started h-e-n, mounted. Woops, there it is in CUPS. USB#1. I make a .txt file in Terminal. lp file.txt > woops, here it comes. Working out of the box.

So here is the point where i really get confused. Haha, but i like it. I wrote a shellscript, to grab my last sms and print it out. Now i wanna make it printout Contacts, and mails. The thing is, what I recognized: Its not printing special characters, like german äöü 'n stuff. And at the beginning of every file, i need a line like: "xxx xxx xxx xxx", or it will mess up the first Characters of the actual textfile.
Maybe if i can get a ppd file for the printer it will work better. Gonna Contact the manufacturer.

Just wanted to lay my 5cent in. Thanx for the beautiful cups porting though. You guys rock!
 

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