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Re: Portable text2eth0 printer?

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On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:40:17 +0000, Unknown wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:46:06 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
>> Avoid> Similarly, instead of finding some Windows-user, to print my
>> text Avoid> via their eth0 connection, I want to just plug my
>> battery-powered Avoid> rPi into the office ethernet that feeds the
>> printer, and get the Avoid> text on the USBstik, printed.
>> 
>> Joe> Your rPi will have to be configured with an IP address appropriate
>> Joe> for the network with the printer. Hopefully the office has DHCP
>> Joe> server so the rPi can auto-configure it's network settings. Once
>> on Joe> the network you'll need the IP or hostname of the printer as
>> well Joe> as the type/model ("HP" is not enough). Use that info to
>> configure Joe> lpr or cups on the rPi. Once all that's done you can
>> print with Joe> "lpr filename" or similar.
>> 
>> There is a DHCP lpr-server datum.  I don't expect many DHCP
>> installations to provide it, though.
>> 
>> Also, there is Bounjour aka Zeroconf aka Rendezvous.  CUPS implements
>> that via libavahi.  So if the print spooler on the Pi is CUPS and the
>> network provides Bonjour service you should be able to find the printer
>> information automatically that way.
> 
> Wow! And they call that progress.
> 30 years ago, I could just send an ASCII string and get the printed
> paper.
> 
> Why do you people allow yourself to be fooled?

30 years ago you connected the printer directly to your computer through
serial or parallel. Why do you try to use this ethernet boondoggle?

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Portable text2eth0 printer? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2014-03-15 11:47 +0000
  Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-03-15 17:14 +0000
    Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 09:35 +0000
      Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-03-21 13:25 +0000
        Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> - 2014-03-27 11:46 -0700
          Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-04-07 12:40 +0000
            Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-04-07 13:59 +0000
            Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-04-07 20:08 +0000

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