TSP100 OSX

[jon.c...@gmail.com]

Hi-

I'm having trouble getting my TSP100 to print HTML or RAW on OSX. I read in another thread that RAW printing may not be supported with this printer on OSX. Is this true? Can you print html?

I'm using qz-tray 2.0.

Thanks,
Jon

[Tres Finocchiaro]

> I read in another thread that RAW printing may not be supported with this printer on OSX.

Correct. This is from Star support:

"Ah ok, the TSP100 is a purely graphical printer so sending plain text and raw commands isn’t going to work. You’ll need to send a raster document to it instead. If you wanted a raw printer of a similar form factor to the TSP100 then you’ll need the TSP654II.
 
The PC works because it is going through the driver which interprets the commands and draws the graphic. This isn’t possible using the OSX driver model." 

(star support)

> Can you print html?

According to their response, yes.  This is untested as we don't currently have the TSP100 hardware (nor will we, since it doesn't scale to our client's needs).  We have obtained a TSP600 series printer and we will be testing that with CUPS on Linux shortly.  We'll let you know how HTML printing works on it.

-Tres 

- Tres.Fin...@gmail.com

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[jon.c...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply!

A follow up question. I'm able to get the html to print, but the size is not correct. It appears very small when printed. If I try to set size.width to the paper size I get an error "0 or negative value argument" complaining that size.height is not set.

What is the best way to get the size right without knowing what the height will be in advance.

Also the printout is extremely low quality. Is there a way to increase the resolution?

Thanks.

[Tres Finocchiaro]

I'm able to get the html to print, but the size is not correct. It appears very small when printed. If I try to set size.width to the paper size I get an error "0 or negative value argument" complaining that size.height is not set.

Right, both are needed.  This is a major limitation to HTML combined with continuous feed printers.  You'd think they'd work swimmingly well together, but the idea of continuous feed really doesn't exist in the printing world, only in point of sale-type printing, which is why languages like ESCP exist.

For example, if you go to an Epson printer in Windows, highlight it and click "server properties", you'll see a list of forms available.  Notice none of them are "continuous feed".  They all have height limitations.  I'm not aware of any way to make this "continuous".  Setting height to zero gives an error.

  

Also the printout is extremely low quality. Is there a way to increase the resolution?

First, make sure you're running Java 8.  Java 7 can't do hi-res HTML.  Second, the software will try to match your DPI automatically, but if this fails, you can try specifying it manually.

Last, some drivers prefer colorType: 'grayscale', per issue #177.

Hope this helps.

-Tres

- Tres.Fin...@gmail.com

[Tres Finocchiaro]

FYI, the TSP600 series tested fine with HTML, PDF and Images using our pixel printing logic.   Continuous feed still is a problem of course.

[Tres Finocchiaro]

^ in CUPS for Linux :)