good day mates,

Now, i am sure many of you has been wanting to put a hammer on the Phomemo M08 Bluetooth thermal printer as i would of done a few days ago. But .....managed to have a glass of Old Pulteney rum and meditated for a bit. I decided ...F#$%^ IT !! this printer is not going to get the best of me..

The script in the PPD from the phomeno Ubuntu / Centos driver is jacked and will not work regardless to what you try. Why? it is made for the 4" x 6" label printer. Which as for the M08F is a A4 format printer ( or any order thing you want to be sticking into it to print in that size).

Work around.

I installed a driver called Generic Thermal Printer Driver. This gaved me a Generic.PPD of which did activate the printer through CUPS. But still gave issues as it held the print jobs due to the margins and settings in the script. So I removed all the settings for smaller printers just to make it default A4 format only bypassing the print output. This worked, printer got the command and printed with all info trough CUPS. However....he wanted to play hardball and gave me enlarged A4 format on a 4" x 3" layout.

I decided to let Phomemo know about the issue as it the driver online is not functioning under Ubuntu, but does with the changes I made. So...Got hit up by Barry ...he was surprised that someone actually did do some research on this and gave a feedback. So with my changes he added the necessary to complete the drive settings and this is what came out.

The new drivers are at the bottom for linux. https://pages.phomemo.com/#/m08f

I would suggest to download it, unpack, open up the folder in shell, sudo install the file, reboot.

Now, I havent gotten the blue-tooth to print a file as yet...keeps disconnecting ( Ubuntu issue ). So ill get back on that if i can. Meaning , delete the settings you have from this printer, install the file and connect directly through USB. Reboot ,add printer and install it....this should work. You'll have to setup your printer output margins to get the print you want.

Problem is solved ....think i deserve a beer ...lol

Have a good weekend