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How to print with a serial port printer in Ubuntu?

I am completely clueless when it comes to printers, ports and things like that so I am just reading and trying to get a printer to work without getting a college degree haha... Basically, I have a ORIENT BTP-2002NP (seems to be the same printer as SNBC BTP-2002NP) printer - it's a small thermal printer which I want to use to print basic stuff using PHP on my Ubuntu PC / Raspberry Pi OS server. My main problem is - it's not a printer like usual printers, and I'm not that experienced with Ubuntu either - it does not get automatically detected, I can't just click print for it to work. The device

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