getur , vor 2 Tagen

@foone when you have trust issues and the RTS/CTS handshake is not enough for you.

xeophin , vor 2 Tagen

@foone Finally a device that knows that multi-tasking is bad for you and concentrates on doing just one thing at a time. Commendable.

faebudo , vor 2 Tagen

@foone How old is the printer and power supply? Probably electrolytic capacitors which lost their capacity when made between 2005-2015.

h3 , vor 2 Tagen

@foone worst case it's bit-banging the USB and cant do that while also controlling the thermal head 🙂

The4thCircle , vor 2 Tagen

@foone

Probably due to power draw. A lot of modern label printers use thermal inks and heating the heads essentially leaves insufficient current to maintain other connections. I had a similar problem using a thermal printer on a raspberry pi.

foone OP , vor 2 Tagen

@The4thCircle that's the thing, it's got a separate power brick! so if it's a power supply problem, then they under-spec'ed their own power supply

dannotdaniel , vor 2 Tagen

@foone dare I ask ⌨️

rotopenguin , vor 2 Tagen

@foone does it inhibit Windows making a bunch of bing-bop-boop boop-bop-bing sounds?

foone OP , vor 2 Tagen

@rotopenguin well this is linux, so no

viq , vor 2 Tagen

@foone
Whoa, that would blow up so badly on qubes, where you have to pass a usb device to the VM where you're doing something with it, and disappearing device would need to be reconnected by you.