From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] printing from Plan 9
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:42:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201909161142.x8GBgqR9004315@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5gEDenDK_E4yvDDL4ecBRLwbVffN_rJFsAkeZg==6M9Bw@mail.gmail.com>
Modern HP printers are very easy to handle. They sit on the
network and Linux can find them automatically. HP provides
excellent LInux support for their printers.
CUPS isn't fun but it's not rocket science; once you get it going
it's generally set and forget.
My 2 cents,
Arnold
Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
> the downside is that you'd need to deal with CUPS!
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:42 PM Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>
> > > You may be better off
> > > sacrificing one of your old RPI boards to Linux and using that as your
> > > common printer interface to the large set of supported printer devices
> >
> > Sounds practical. Years ago I used a Mac for a CUPS server, until a
> > MacOS opgrade suddenly made it stop working with lp(1), and I was too
> > lazy to debug it. Maybe time to try again with raspbian.
> >
> >
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-16 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-14 9:04 Richard Miller
2019-09-14 9:14 ` Covert Username
2019-09-14 10:43 ` Graham Gallagher
2019-09-14 11:41 ` Richard Miller
2019-09-14 12:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-09-16 11:42 ` arnold [this message]
2019-09-15 19:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-09-16 4:14 ` Lucio De Re
2019-09-16 13:45 ` Ethan Gardener
2019-09-16 17:41 ` hiro
2019-09-14 9:12 umbraticus
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