Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?

From	Unknown <dog@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject	Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?
Date	2015-03-30 04:46 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<pan.2015.03.30.04.57.58@gmail.com> (permalink)
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:09:36 +0000, Joe wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Unknown <dog@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Obviously, many writers here are 'in the industry'. So for them: the
>> more complex the better. But how/why do you USERS tolerate the
>> absurdity: compared to printing a page of plain text 40 years ago?!
>> 
>> 
> The same way as any other kind of user. Cars are a couple of orders of
> magnitude more complex than they were 100 years ago while being much
> easier for users to drive.
> 
> Printers (the big office multifunction ones) do vastly more than my
> 9-pin dot-matrix device of 30 years ago would do, and even that was much
> more versatile than the teletypes of 10-20 years earlier.
> 
> The users never see the complexity, they just click that 'print' icon.
> Even the ones on their mobile phone screens. It all Just Works, for
> users of mass-market operating systems, anyway.

Yes but the suposedly 'technos' allow themselves to be blinded by the 
marketers. 

Even I missed the obvious first-step-probe/solution !!
Just plug the rPi's eth0 to the printer/S socket in place of the LAN's.

What script-code would allow the rPi to test/probe the printer/S?

I only print 5 x 4 == 20 pages a year, so I can do that before the 
printer/s are powered-up in the morning.

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Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? noSpam@gmail.com - 2015-03-25 03:13 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-25 09:34 -0400
    Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-03-25 18:05 +0000
      Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-03-25 21:04 +0000
        Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 22:04 +0000
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-30 08:35 +0100
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-30 09:06 -0400
      Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-25 23:55 +0000
        Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-26 09:22 -0400
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-26 13:30 +0000
            Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-26 14:03 +0000
              Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-03-26 15:08 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 08:45 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-03-28 09:32 +0000
              Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 09:21 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-03-28 10:09 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 04:46 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-30 09:13 -0400
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-03-30 20:53 +0100
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-03-28 22:52 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-03-25 19:59 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? John Davis <wa8yxm@arrl.invalid.net> - 2015-03-25 19:39 -0400

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