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Subject: Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 04:46:04 +0000 (UTC)
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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.