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Raspberry Pi

Questions tagged [printing]

Printing is the act of transferring data from a computer to another medium. The most common act is transferring data from a computer to paper.

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AirPrinting to Wireless Print Server on the Raspberry Pi Zero W

I've setup my RPi Zero W as a Wireless Print Server (with cups, samba packages) for an old HP LaserJet and it works great. Prints from my Windows laptop are nearly instantaneous. I then installed ...
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3D printer corrupts Pi when shutdown

I have my rPi hooked up to my printer via USB connection and powered by a power adapter as supplied with the kit from amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07BD3WHCK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?...
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'Inappropriate ioctl for device' Error at a TX/RX connection with a thermal printer

I want to connect my Rasperry Pi3 with a thermal Printer I've bought and I checked all tutorials I could find and after trying one out I get this error: Inappropriate ioctl for device I get this ...
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Catching Printer Errors in CUPS

Well, I am new to the Raspberry Pi, and I would like to ask how we can catch errors in a printer? Like paper jam or no paper available in the printer? I am currently printing documents using my ...
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Raspberry Pi as bluetooth printer

I have a project where i need to setup the to appear to other devices as a Bluetooth printer. The reason is i have a portable device the prints only through bluetooth, it searches for available ...
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CUPS with Epson XP-6000

I'm a new raspberry pi user. I'm trying to install an Epson XP-6000 printer using CUPS. I don't see this printer model listed on the page to pick drivers and googling around hasn't turn up much in ...
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How to access a Windows shared USB printer from Raspbian

I have a desktop box with Windows 8.1 with a Brother MFC-2740DW printer. I can access that print from mu laptop with Windows 10 without any problem. Now, I want to be able to do the same with my ...
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CUPS supported HP air printers on raspberry pi 3 B+

I am looking to buy a HP wireless printer to work with CUPS + gutenprint on raspberry pi 3 B+. Has anyone in this forum been able to successfully configure an HP wireless printer with raspberry pi ...
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Share Ethernet printer on Wi-Fi

I have an old printer with only Ethernet and USB, no Wi-Fi connection. I therefore want to know if I can use my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ for that purpose, so that the printer is shown up as a network printer....
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Choosing a distribution and packages for a print server [closed]

I'm helping out someone who's not very tech-savvy replace an older desktop computer, whose only current use is as an SMB print server, with a Raspberry Pi 2B. I've never worked witha Pi before, but I'...
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sharing printer and cd-rom via local network

I have to share cd-rom and printer to network which contains windows and linux machines. For this solve I have got: a rpi 3 b+, hp deskjet 2520hc printer and cd-rom reader/writer (transcend).
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RPI raw write to usb device (printer upgrade)

Is there a way to write directly to EP of USB printer connected to Raspberry Pi 3? When I try to write to usb directly i get write error: Invalid argument: echo 1 > /dev/bus/usb/001/004 -su: echo:...
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Raspberry Pi Zero W + Adafruit Thermal Printer Only printing limited number of characters

I'm trying to set up an Adafruit Thermal printer Mode: CSN-A2-T with a Raspberry Pi Zero W that is running Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.4 (which I believe is Raspbian Jessie). I need to be able to print ...
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Install EPSON TM-T88V printer with CUPS in Raspberry pi 3

I am trying to install the EPSON TM-T88V printer with CUPS in Raspberry pi 3, but I can not make prints, the status of the printer says "inactive". I tried the PPD file "tm-ba-thermal-rastertotmt.ppd" ...
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Unexpected data over /dev/serial0

I'm using a Raspberry Pi B+ to connect to the Adafruit Mini Thermal Receipt Printer using a slightly modified version of their provided python library. I've been able to connect to the printer and ...
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Print text from an editbox in PyQt5 GUI with Adafruit Thermal Printer using CUPS (lpr)

I want to know if I can print what an editbox contains from my PyQt5 GUI. Is there a package I should import, or a package I should install so that when I clicked a button, the text inside the ...
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Thermal Printing Setup (Raspberry Pi 3 Paspbian Stretch)

I am using an Adafruit Thermal Printer TTL, if not Tiny, then Mini. I have tried following this tutorial and other tutorials like this one. As for the first tutorial, I am not sure if I should still ...
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CUPS Printing with Brother MFCJ430W

So I'm having trouble getting my printer to work, I installed CUPS and it seems to be working correctly. I downloaded and installed the drivers for the printer from the Brother website from here: http:...
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How to solve Rpi3 usb problem while printing?

I am printing from an rpi3 using nginx+php7.1+cups, connected to a canon printer, which downloads pdf files through https requests. From the rpi3, i issue the following command when something needs to ...
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How do I set up a Pi as a print server for a Canon LBP7010C? [closed]

I would like to have a Raspberry Pi to act as a print server in order to share a USB printer on my home network. The printer is a Canon iSenSYS LBP7010C (colour laserjet), drivers I am told are ...
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Why does my pi using Cups print test pages fine, but nothing else?

I installed cups onto my pi fairly smoothly, printed the test page on cups, all good. Locate the printer (HP deskjet 960c) which is located inside the RASPBERRYPI network folder, all connects fine, ...
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CUPS print server only prints the print job

tl;dr: CUPS print server only prints the print job itself, not the actual document. Background I have been baffled with a CUPS problem for about three weeks now. I am attempting to set up a print ...
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How to access CUPS web page config from another device in the network?

I've wanted to config CUPS for my printer, but because I'm running a command-only version of Raspbian, I don't have access to the browser on this device. I've followed the CUPS installation and ...
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Autostart Chromium cloud print service on startup

I am using my Raspberry Pi to set up a print station in a remote location, and I am using Google Cloud Print to send prints from my home. Everything works fine when I am booted to desktop on RPi, but ...
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RaspPi and DYMO LabelWriter, CUPS driver, landscape orientation

Did anybody win the struggle to install a DYMO LabelWriter 450 on RaspBian successful (presumably using apache2 and CUPS for external configuration) ? And did anybody print landscape orientated ...
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printing speed, CUPS, Epson TM-T88IV, PI 3

I need to setup a RasPi for some hardware things in a p.o.s. environment, like scanners, scale and printers (3 printers). So I took a brand new RasPi, did a complete new installation with apache2, ...
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Epson PictureMate 100 not printing on Raspberry Pi 3

I am attempting to get an Epson PictureMate 100 working with a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspian (Jessie). According to Open Printing the PictureMate should work perfectly with Gutenprint 5.2.7. I chose ...
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Problem with lp command on raspberry pi 3

I have a problem with my hp laserjet p1005 printer on Raspberry pi 3. Actually, for some pdf documents, the lp command doesn't print the document correctly . The printed page is weird (the first ...
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CUPS authentication issue when printing to thermal printer connected to Pi

I have this Adafruit Mini Thermal printer connected to a Pi running Raspbian Jesse. I have CUPS installed on the Pi and can print directly to the printer without any issues. But when I try to print ...
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poster/inforgaphic explaining what a rasberry pi is

I am looking for a downloadable poster that can be printed on A4 that explains, in an exciting and engaging way, what a Raspberry Pi is and what its potential is. It is for a place where computers in ...
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Thermal printer does not print out test print

I'm trying to get my adafruit thermal printer (ttl) to connect with my raspberry pi 3. I've done every step exactly like said in the tutorial on adafruit but the printer does nothing, not eve ...
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RPI 3B and Tiny Thermal Printer - Unable to use python library

I'm having trouble hooking up my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B to my Adafruit Tiny Thermal Printer (nb: not the mini thermal printer - this is the one with a mini-USB port built in). I've got it connected ...
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Printing problem

I am a noob on the Pi system. I have installed CUPS on my Pi3. I run CUPS and added a network printer (HP Laserjet 1320). I can send a test print from CUPS to the printer and all is good. The ...
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Installing Epson TM-U220 on Raspbian Jessie with Pixel

I'm using Raspbian Jessie with PIXEl version March 2017, 2017-03-02, kernel 4.4. I'm already installing CUPS and trying some methods. The methods that I already try and still did not work : ...
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Terminal output to printer and not to monitor

Suppose I don't want to use monitors with my Raspberry Pi. All terminal output should be printed on paper, and all the user inputs should be printed on paper. Something like a typewriter, but one that ...
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How to power Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff not separately [closed]

Here is the thing, I want to give the 2A and 5V power to my Raspberry Pi Zero and also I have a thermal printer that runs under 2A and 5V. How could I power those two elements without using two ...
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If I connect my USB printer to my Raspberry Pi and share it with Samba do I still need a driver for the Pi?

I do not have the right drivers for my Raspberry Pi. That said, if i connect my Pi to my printer and share it with Samba, will I still need a driver to print via the wireless network? As per this ...
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Can I use r/pi to bridge two networks and provide access to a printer on one of them?

I'd like to provide access to a network printer on network A to users on network B. I'm only interested in forwarding print jobs to the printer from network B to network A (not the other way around). ...
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Print to usb Printer (ql700) from python code

I am somehow new to python coding, I am writing a program that creates barcodes and then prints them to a thermal Label Printer, I currently own a Brother QL700, drivers and all working. The printer ...
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CUPS - install windows network printer in raspbian

OK, I just got my RPI 3 model B. And success in installing the Raspbian. Now I would like to ask about how to connect my printer (canon ip1880 and Canon LBP6030 in WIN10CPU) into my raspbian. I ...
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Thermal printer does not react

I'm (now for some weeks) trying to get a thermal printer (ttl) to work without success. I've done every step exactly like said in this tutorial but the printer does nothing. Since I don't know how to ...
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Thermal printer with Raspberry Pi 2 outputs only Chinese chars

Following thermal printer + raspi2 tutorial for printing images (https://learn.adafruit.com/networked-thermal-printer-using-cups-and-raspberry-pi/connect-and-configure-printer), I've already connected ...
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Connect TTL thermal printer to RaspberryPi2

I'm not fan of asking in forums before having tested all possibilities... Here is my problem: I've purchased a TTL mini thermal printer. I connected to launch a print test, and the printer LED ...
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Can't get Brother HL-L2300D printer to print from Raspberry Pi

I've been trying to setup my HL-L2300D printer. I downloaded the driver from Brother, hooked up the printer via USB, and everything looks like it should work. However, it doesn't print. Here is the ...
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Printing with HP Envy 4500

HP Envy 4500 is a printer that should be supported by the hplip driver. I have a RPi box on a remote site, with the printer connected to the USB port of the box. I also have a top-of-the-bleeding-...
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UART print is not functioning in pi 3 but functions in pi 1 [duplicate]

I have 1.disabled the serial communication using raspi-config 2.edited console=tty with /boot/cmdline.txt 3.wrote python code for both read and write (with 9600 baudrate) in both pi 1 and pi 3 It ...
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Can Raspberry Pi 2 connect to a printer directly via ethernet?

Can a Raspberry Pi 2 use its ethernet port to connect directly to a printer's ethernet port so it can function as a print server? The Raspberry Pi 2 would have a WiFi dongle. How can this be ...
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Is it possible and reasonable to use a i386 rpm driver on Raspbian?

I have a Dell Color Laser 1320c (or Fuji Xerox C525 A; their drivers seem to be compatible) and want to use it in a CUPS server on a Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, I can only find a i386 driver as a rpm ...
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CUPS doesn't work

As the title says I'm having problems with CUPS on my RPi when printing things to paper. The way I have tried is by running lp /home/pi/Desktop/python/car.py with the default printer already set. ...
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Raspberry Pi CUPS printing canon MG5660 not actually printing

I have an up to date raspberry Pi connected over wifi, and a Canon MG5660 connected over wifi. I have installed CUPS on the Pi. The web interface for CUPS detected the network printer and went all ...

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