Monthly Archive for December, 2010

Printing Raw EPL on the LP2844 from a Mac or Linux

This is mostly a list for my own purposes, but I got a Eltron/Zebra LP2844 to print raw files generated on my Mac to send over USB.

First, you need to find the device URI:

$ /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb
direct usb://Zebra/LP2844?serial=42J094403339 "Zebra LP2844" "Zebra LP2844" "SERN:42J094403339;MFG:Zebra ;CMD:None;MDL:LP2844 ;" ""

Add the printer to CUPS, accept, and enable it:

$ lpadmin -p zebra -v usb://Zebra/LP2844?serial=42J094403339
$ cupsaccept zebra
$ cupsenable zebra

(cupsaccept is for Mac, “accept” works on all other flavors of UNIX.)

Try a test:

$ lpr -P zebra test.raw