

- #SEIKO SMART LABEL PRINTER 240 SOFTWARE INSTALL#
- #SEIKO SMART LABEL PRINTER 240 SOFTWARE DRIVER#
- #SEIKO SMART LABEL PRINTER 240 SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
Many flavors of Linux have a printer administration utility separate from the CUPS administration utility (available from Many times the non-CUPS test page will have the scaling and/or margin problems described above. Some programs, when trying to calculate printable area, will calculate a negative result and crash. The entire height of a label is usually smaller than the sum of the default header and footer sizes hard coded into most programs. Problem: Labels other than the test labels are cropped or scaled wrong. Default paper size may be changed with the CUPS administration utility at. Sometimes, when creating a printer instance, a Linux flavor will assign a paper size other than the default specified by the PPD. Problem: Test labels are scaled all wrong.
#SEIKO SMART LABEL PRINTER 240 SOFTWARE DRIVER#
If CUPS and the driver are installed properly, CUPS should be able to find the PPDs and present them as an option when creating the printer instance.

Watching the output of the 'make install' command will reveal the destination path for the ppd.gz files on your system.
#SEIKO SMART LABEL PRINTER 240 SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
CUPS may not find the PPDs in their nested directory if SELinux or other security software is enabled. Problem: The "SII" manufacturer doesn't appear in the manufacturer list when attempting to discover the printer. The test203 and test300 commands are designed for the SLP-2RL Small Address Label only. Although it may not work for any port/printer combination.)Ĭontained within the CUPS administration tool for an installed printer instance is an option to print a test page. (CUPS will allow any PPD to be used with any port or printer. Although it is not directly supported by this driver, the PPD for the SLP200/420 may be assigned to it manually. The very popular 220 was discontinued many years ago. PPDs for "Seiko" printers are widely distributed with the "Foomatic" open source effort and are NOT the PPDs provided by Seiko Instruments Inc. The manufacturer name contained within the enclosed PPD files is "SII", not "Seiko".
#SEIKO SMART LABEL PRINTER 240 SOFTWARE INSTALL#
Use the CUPS administration tool located at to install the printer instance on your system. This will not remove printer instances recognized by the system. a suffix) to a directory accessible to your linker, usually /usr/lib.įrom the command-line, utter the following:Īfter a successful build, the driver may be installed with: tar files can be unpacked with tar -vxf. tar.gz files can be unpacked with tar -vxfz. (-lz) libz can be downloaded and built from. (-ljpeg) libjpeg can be downloaded and built from. Ubuntu: libcupsys2-dev and libcupsimage2-dev These libraries can be found within your Linux implementation's software installer. This driver has been tested with SuSE, RedHat/Fedora and Ubuntu Linux.īuilding this driver requires that CUPS development libraries are installed. This driver described herein has only been validated with a USB interface. Smart Label Printers are produced by Seiko Instruments, Inc. A makefile to build and install the filter. Source code to build a binary CUPS filter. PPD files for the following Smart Label Printers. Two halves of a CUPS 1.1 printer driver:
