Problem installing thermal printer

Question

I have a usb HOIN HOP-H58 thermal printer that I have not succeeded in installing. I have Ubuntu 18.04 and a POS system that I wish to use the printer with. The system recognises the printer as CUPS-BRF Printer but adding it as such does not work.

Ubuntu system gives these options of adding the printer from the settings:

• By selecting printer name from database - Hoin/Hop not available
• Select a ppd file from installation source -- only .rar file available from printer's website: http://hoinprinter.com/en/download
• Installing as Generic (text-only) (still from database of printers) - Does not work

I even tried Epson drivers (As the printer shows something like "command: Espson ESC/POS") but this too was problematic and didn't work.

I will really appreciate any help on how to get the drivers and how to install them ( https://github.com/IntegersOfK/Hoin-POS-58-80 seems to have a probable solution but I could not figure out how to install).

Thanks, Joseph.

Hi again..., I managed to school myself a bit and I "successfully" run the .sh file from the downloaded file. This was the screen output:

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root@User1-job-node:/home/User11/Downloads/Linux Driver/install_package# chmod +x setup58.sh 
root@User1-job-node:/home/User11/Downloads/Linux Driver/install_package# ./setup58.sh
POS Electronics Co..Ltd 
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    Models included:
                 POS-80-Series
                 POS-58-Series
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Searching for ServerRoot, ServerBin, and DataDir tags in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

ServerBin tag not present in cupsd.conf - using default

DataDir tag not present in cupsd.conf - using default

ServerRoot = 
ServerBin  = 
DataDir    = 

Copying rastertopos58 filter to /usr/lib/cups/filter
chmod: cannot access './bin/rastertopos58': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat './bin/rastertopos58': No such file or directory

Copying model ppd files to /usr/share/cups/model/pos
cp: cannot stat 'ppd/*.ppd': No such file or directory

Add the POS-58-Series printer
lpadmin: Unable to open PPD "/usr/share/cups/model/pos/pos58.ppd": Unable to open PPD file on line 0.
lpadmin: Unable to open PPD file "/usr/share/cups/model/pos/pos58.ppd" - No such file or directory

Restarting CUPS
[ ok ] Stopping cups (via systemctl): cups.service.
[ ok ] Starting cups (via systemctl): cups.service.

Install Complete
Go to http://localhost:631, or http://127.0.0.1:631 to manage your printer please

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After this, the printer fails to work and the following is noted:

• Opening http://localhost:631, one cannot "add printer" since after entering login details the browser (firefox in this case) searches forever with nothing coming out of it,
• The printer ill never print even a testpage and this is shown under 'status' in the printing preferences for the printer (POS-58-Series): File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rasteropos58" not available: No such file or Directory

Other tried options for which installation flopped were:

• https://github.com/mike42/escpos-php
• https://github.com/IntegersOfK/Hoin-POS-58-80

Answer 1

Edit the first line of the script from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash, if you get the error, gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file when running the script.

Instead of running the script, you could also try adding the printer just using the provided PPD file.

• Download the appropriate PPD file (pos58.ppd)

• Plug in your device (USB)

• Open CUPS web interface.

• Addminstration -> 'Add printer'

• Under 'Local Printers', you should see your printer. The generic printers usually are displayed as 'Unknown'

• Choose the PPD file from your disk.

• Finally click on 'Add Printer'