KX-P3124

My dot matrix printer is a Panasonic KX-P3124. It has no cups driver, and cups is deprecating drivers in favor of new IPP everywhere printers. Maybe I’ll read the CUPS documentation later. For now I’m making a pretty printer application from scratch.

Hardware

I am using a USB to Centronix adapter and communicating directly to it using /dev/usb/lp0.

Scope

For now, I want to emulate the three things this printer was made for:

• SETUP.EXE - the software version of the front LCD panel settings
• Printing text - making full use of the fancy fonts and formatting preinstalled to the printer
• Raster graphics - printing raster graphics (B/W and Color)

Maybe later I will add filters to print arbitrary files, like CUPS intended…