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Daniel

01:43

@JBis That's an awesome feature when I remember to use it.

Allan

02:33

Does anyone know how to find the device name of a USB printer via Terminal? I'm attempting to send a file via ghostscript with the command

`cat file.txt | gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=gdi -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | cat /dev/**SOMEUSBDEVICE**`

How can I find out what /dev/**SOMEUSBDEVICE** is?

All my printers are networked and the last time I setup a local printer was when parallel was all the rage (/dev/lp0)

Daniel

@Allan Did you ask on the site? That's a great question.

Allan

Haven't yet...I was hoping to catch someone live

Daniel

I wish I knew the answer

Allan

02:49

Me too!

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Q: How to determine the device name of a USB connected printer

I'm trying to solve a printer issue and I'm attemting to send a text file via Ghostscript to a locally attached USB printer. To do this, I need the device name (/dev/<someidentifer>). How do I determine what that device identifier is? The command I'm trying to issue is: cat file.txt | gs -q -dB...