How to print to USB printer from embedded ARM board?

[Mel Wilson]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> I have been approached about helping on a project that is running Linux 
> on an Embedded ARM board (a TS-7250). [ ... ]
> Does anyone happen to have a general idea how much disk space an 
> Lpr/CUPS with Ghostscript printing system would need? [ ... ]
> Are there pre-compiled packages of lpr (& c.), Ghostscript, etc. already 
> out there for ARM? (It would save me cross-compiling).

The board manufacturer supplies root filesystem images for Debian 
Linux.  I'm running a TS-7400 here with Debian 3.1 Sarge.  With this 
you can do apt-get for any of the Debian supported packages that 
weren't included in the image.
The apt-get install for CUPS was easy (22.7MB storage, btw), but then 
I got hung up on USB printer support -- lack of drivers or some such 
thing...
I, too, will chase this down.  I need to know this stuff.

	Cheers,		Mel.
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