Section [id]

Note: This section is mandatory for USB printers.

In order to select a corresponding driver to a printer device, some USB related entries are required:

Mandatory keys are:

Key	Description
vid	The Vendor ID, a unique numerical value
pid	The Product ID, a unique numerical value

Each vendor of USB devices has a unique ID. The same is valid for their products. When your printer device is attached to the system, you can use tools like lsusb to retrieve these numerical values:

root@host:~ lsusb
[...]
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f9:209b Brother Industries, Ltd
[...]

In this case the 04f9 is the Vendor ID and the 209b is the Product ID.

Note: Both values shown by the lsusb command are meant in hexadecimal. For the INI file these values must lead by an 0x to mark them as hexadecimal.

Optional keys are:

Key	Description
1284DeviceID	Some kind of string to identify the device.

The 1284DeviceID key isn't yet used to identify the printer device. But it is a good idea to store if for the future. You can use the capsprninfo tool to retrieve this string from your printer.

root@host:~ capsprninfo id /dev/usb/lp0
MFG:Brother;CMD:PT-CBP;MDL:QL-800;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother LabelPrinter TypeE1;

An example of the [id] section:

[id]
vid=0x04f9
pid=0x209b
1284DeviceID=MFG:Brother;CMD:PT-CBP;MDL:QL-800;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother LabelPrinter TypeE1;