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Re: AirPrint with Cups

#11

Post by kotaKat »

triyambakam wrote: post #3
cptaffe wrote: post #2

I started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post

I love it! I have my printer hooked up to my network with an Raspberry Pi and would be glad to make it easier to print from the iPad.

I had to have a HomeBridge server already and was running it from a Pi Zero W -- I just decided to bolt it onto the back of the printer and make it pull double-duty as the CUPS box.

A little party trick -- depending on the printer, you might be able to get an "in line" power tap/Y splitter for the power cord to run the Pi and the printer off the same outlet. (My printer takes a normal C14, so I just split and slapped a USB brick on the other end.)

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Post by Tepix »

cptaffe wrote: post #2

I started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post

Neat. I am also using a Raspberry Pi to keep my (18 year old) Samsung CLP510N alive, however the Raspberry Pi also runs Pi-Hole (DNS Adblock). I'm curious if i can combine avahi (for air print) and pi-hole?

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Post by cramjabsyn »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #4

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

You can run all this in a container, in fact there are already pre-built containers to do it

Re: AirPrint with Cups

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Post by cptaffe »

kotaKat wrote: post #11
triyambakam wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love it! I have my printer hooked up to my network with an Raspberry Pi and would be glad to make it easier to print from the iPad.

I had to have a HomeBridge server already and was running it from a Pi Zero W -- I just decided to bolt it onto the back of the printer and make it pull double-duty as the CUPS box. A little party trick -- depending on the printer, you might be able to get an "in line" power tap/Y splitter for the power cord to run the Pi and the printer off the same outlet. (My printer takes a normal C14, so I just split and slapped…

This is cool! Blurring the line between what is and isn't part of the printer itself
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