25 Sep
2006
25 Sep
'06
11:43 p.m.
--- "John R." <jhoger at gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/25/06, aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
<aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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Hi folks,
I was wondering if anyone has any data on
the Dymo Labelwriter 330 Turbo?
I seem to recall downloading the command format fr their website.
Keep looking. Did you try downloading the SDK
through the Developers
tab? Maybe there's a document in there.
If you can't find it you can always use a machine
with two serial
ports (serial protocol analyzer to snoop the
traffic. HP serial
protocol analyzers up to 19200bps units go pretty
cheap on ebay these
days if you want a stand-alone. This is not a task
you can con someone
else into doing if it ain't already done (well, yo
u
could pay them, I
guess). It is a challenge that you will have to me
et
yourself if you
cannot find documentation.
-- John.
Thanks for that, if no-one can help I'll look
out for that piece of kit on eBay and get
myself a laptop (I hate MS & Windoze)
I did some research before buying myself the
Labelwriter, and some guy (I forget his name)
has written a driver for a modern printer
so he could use it with his retro one.
He used software to intercept the data being
sent/recieved, rather than some equipment.
I also hooked up the Labelwriter to my Amiga
600, and used AMOS BASIC to try and get it
to print something by sending random data
(perhaps a bad idea) to it with no luck.
I did, however, confirm that the Amiga
recognised that the printer was connected.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
26 Sep
26 Sep
1:32 a.m.
On 9/25/06, aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Thanks for that, if no-one can help I'll look
out for that piece of kit on eBay and get
myself a laptop (I hate MS & Windoze)
I did some research before buying myself the
Labelwriter, and some guy (I forget his name)
has written a driver for a modern printer
so he could use it with his retro one.
He used software to intercept the data being
sent/recieved, rather than some equipment.
I also hooked up the Labelwriter to my Amiga
600, and used AMOS BASIC to try and get it
to print something by sending random data
(perhaps a bad idea) to it with no luck.
I did, however, confirm that the Amiga
recognised that the printer was connected.
There are software serial protocol analyzers that just monitor the
port. They are inferior to hardware protocol analyzers in that they
may hide or distort relative timing of requests/responses and flow
control signals. But they are certainly better than nothing, and may
be sufficient.
It is unlikely that you will be able to determine the protocol by
sending random data.
Sorry I can't be of more help. I have one of these label writers
too... I just punted and hooked it up to Windows in a VMWare session
rather than hooking it to Linux directly. I may be able to do some
traces for you if you're really desperate and cannot get the equipment
or documentation you need. I'm not sure if I have exactly the same
device but it should be 90% the same (Dymo Command Language).
-- John.
10:35 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, John R. wrote:
On 9/25/06, aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
<aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Yep, I wrote one a while ago to reverse-engineer a smartcard reader.
Unfortunately the reader died before I could use my tool :-( I called the
software serialdump, you can get it here:
http://alexeyt.freeshell.org/code/serialdump.tgz
The readme has instructions for making cabling:
http://alexeyt.freeshell.org/code/serialdump.README
Let me know if you need help with it.
Alexey
Thanks for that, if no-one can help I'll look
out for that piece of kit on eBay and get
myself a laptop (I hate MS & Windoze)
I did some research before buying myself the
Labelwriter, and some guy (I forget his name)
has written a driver for a modern printer
so he could use it with his retro one.
He used software to intercept the data being
sent/recieved, rather than some equipment.
I also hooked up the Labelwriter to my Amiga
600, and used AMOS BASIC to try and get it
to print something by sending random data
(perhaps a bad idea) to it with no luck.
I did, however, confirm that the Amiga
recognised that the printer was connected.
There are software serial protocol analyzers that just monitor the
port. They are inferior to hardware protocol analyzers in that they
may hide or distort relative timing of requests/responses and flow
control signals. But they are certainly better than nothing, and may
be sufficient.
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