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Are you making a run back to the shop for more labels, just to be sure that this all works?

You can probably just use: pdftoppm -png xxx.pdf label
That would make the set of PNG files named label-1.png, label-2.png ...
Then print them with: lpr -P LABEL label*.png

Chelsea80 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 2:50 am

With that in mind do you still hold the opinion that

In the end, using a USB drive may still be the simplest solution.

Yes.

Chelsea80 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:09 am

I understand your logic. A crisis plan is in place for such an eventuality.

Then why mess with XP at all if you aren't using it for anything but secure backup of Puppy files. Remove the XP hard drive and convert it into an external USB drive.

Booting from SD cards has always been unreliable.

1. Boot from the Ventoy USB again and check the SD card. Is it detected as a USB or an EMMC device?

2. Can you find the missing menu.lst file on the SD card?

@Chelsea80: Dual booting the XP machine will introduce a new set of problems, like how will you safely insert the downloaded files into the XP filesystem without corrupting it.

You never answered my set of questions above.

Is this problem in LO specific to the Chinese printer or does it also happen with the genuine model?

But if you just use INSERTTEXT="\n" it fails. Strange.

@MochiMoppel : Ths works for me too but I don't understand the syntax. The sed "i" command inserts a string into the file and ends it with a newline. So shouldn't inserting a newline give you TWO blank lines?

@mikeslr

1. Does a Windows computer have the same problem as Puppy with dropouts/reconnections?

2. Your Verizon router may have a setting that makes it display the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands with different names. That might help things.

Just to be clear, "5G" refers to the fifth generation of wireless cellular technology. This is the signal between a transmission tower and a cellphone. Don't confuse this with the 5GHz frequency band used by the wifi computer equipment inside your house.

Have you considered getting a USB wifi adapter with a big external antenna?

Even if powerwashing reset the BIOS, it wouldn't be a big job to restore the SeaBIOS. And none of that would affect the stuff on your USB/SD drives.

Various solutions were proposed. Some of which can be applied without regard to what operating systems the computers run.

If you are just transferring files between Puppies, all you need is gnetcat. Remove the fake .gz extension.

The only dependency is lzop which is already in some Puppies.