Setup for Munbyn ITPP941 and Vevor Y428BT printers

[mairas]

The GitHub project didn't have a Discussion board, so let me misuse this issue for a success report and compliments.

I set up lprint on a Proxmox container. Snap wouldn't readily function because of the container environment, so I built lprint from sources. No issues there, sudo make install even put the systemd service files in place.

Printer setup was more straightforward than expected: the Munbyn ITPP941 worked right away with the tspl_203dpi driver and the Vevor Y428BT likewise worked out of the box with the tspl_300dpi driver.

I couldn't be happier. Thank you for your great work!

This issue report can be closed right away. Sorry for spamming. :-)

[michaelrsweet]

No worries, and thank you for letting me know things are working for you!

If you can provide the output of "lprint devices" then I can explicitly add them to the list of supported devices in a future release.

[michaelrsweet]

Also, I've gone ahead and enabled the discussions section for this project (they are really just issues that are split out on the separate tab, much like PRs...)

[mairas]

Here's the lprint devices output:

root@cups:~# lprint devices
usb://Munbyn%20/ITPP941?serial=9412104036835
usb://VEVOR%20/Y428BT?serial=0000000
root@cups:~#

Apologies for the hostname... :-) The Vevor one is crappy enough that it doesn't even provide a unique serial number.

Beware, though - both of these devices are Chinese knockoff printers that you in some discussion/issue/cantremember noted you preferred to stay clear of. Which is a decision I have absolutely no problem with. That was part of the reason I wanted to write either this issue or a Discussion post: when people Google for them, they'll find this issue to get them started even if explicit documentation wouldn't exist for those printers...

[michaelrsweet]

Could you provide the verbose output? Run:

lprint -o verbose devices

That way I'll see the device IDs to use for matching the driver...

[fryc88]

My apologies for adding comment here - but is there any way to find info how can i get ITPP941 running with lprint? I have manually installed driver from Munbyn page but all i got is filter error when printing, so while looking for solution, google got me here. I'm assuming it is somehow possible to get it working after reading a few issues here, but I'm pretty much lost.
Thanks

[gauthier12]

Hi.
I'm trying to make print the VEVOR 428BT on a Rpi Zero (arm 32bit).
To answer @michaelrsweet , the output of lprint -o verbose devices :

lprint -o verbose devices
usb://VEVOR%20/Y428BT?serial=0000000
    VEVOR  Y428BT (USB)
    MFG:VEVOR ;CMD: ;MODEL:Y428BT;DES:LabelPrinter;

@mairas : How were you able to add it to lprint, I am trying to add it with

lprint add -m tspl_300dpi -d VEVOR -v usb://VEVOR%20/Y428BT?serial=0000000

but I get an error
lprint: Unable to add printer: Driver 'tspl_300dpi' cannot be used with this printer.

The debian package did not list the driver so I recompiled myself and I can see the driver when I list them with

lprint drivers

[gauthier12]

Ok, my bad, it seems that I was using the debian package executable and not the one compiled by myself.
I confirm that the Vevor Y428 works with tspl_300dpi driver.
I've dirtily added the device id in the file lprint-tspl.h to enable auto-detect