[gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?

[gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?

[Grant]

I'd like to buy a Sipix A6 portable printer for printing boarding
passes on the go since they can be had for around $20.  It is said to
work in Linux:

http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6

but that page only mentions the serial connection and doesn't mention
the infrared connection.  If it's working via serial, should it also
work via infrared?  If not necessarily, should it definitely work via
a serial->USB adapter that works in Linux?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?

[Matt Harrison]

Grant wrote:
> I'd like to buy a Sipix A6 portable printer for printing boarding
> passes on the go since they can be had for around $20.  It is said to
> work in Linux:
> 
> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6
> 
> but that page only mentions the serial connection and doesn't mention
> the infrared connection.  If it's working via serial, should it also
> work via infrared?  If not necessarily, should it definitely work via
> a serial->USB adapter that works in Linux?
> 
> - Grant
> 

Don't quote me on this, but in the past when I have used infrared, it 
used a pseudo serial connection. This should mean that once the infrared 
connection is established, you should be able to print as if it was a 
physical serial connection.

Of course, getting the IR connection established might be easier said 
than done.

HTH

-- 
Matt Harrison

Re: [gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?

[Grant]

>> I'd like to buy a Sipix A6 portable printer for printing boarding
>> passes on the go since they can be had for around $20.  It is said to
>> work in Linux:
>>
>> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6
>>
>> but that page only mentions the serial connection and doesn't mention
>> the infrared connection.  If it's working via serial, should it also
>> work via infrared?  If not necessarily, should it definitely work via
>> a serial->USB adapter that works in Linux?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> Don't quote me on this, but in the past when I have used infrared, it used a
> pseudo serial connection. This should mean that once the infrared connection
> is established, you should be able to print as if it was a physical serial
> connection.
>
> Of course, getting the IR connection established might be easier said than
> done.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Matt Harrison

Thanks Matt, I don't feel like coaxing infrared to work (never used it
before) so I'll get the adapter.

- Grant