I have a "travel router" running openwrt and my printer is plugged in it. I should have paid $15 on the router, it's a palm sized tplink. It's running p910nd as the printer daemon and works well. Wireless printing even when the printer isn't wireless...
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 22:36 Stewart Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > That seems a lot. Doesn't windows have generic PCL or PS drivers? Even > Apple's IPP assumes PCL > > On Mon., Jun. 5, 2023, 17:41 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> > wrote: > >> A friend has an old trusty HP LaserJet 4MP printer. >> >> This is so old that HP no longer makes Windows drivers for it and HP no >> longer has online manuals for it. I'm guessing that the 4mp model was >> introduced about 30 years ago. (I bought a LaserJet IIP in 1989 for >> $1400. Long dead.) >> >> It works fine under Linux (he has used Ubuntu). He did need a dongle to >> connect the serial or parallel port (I don't remember which) to a USB >> port >> on the computer. >> >> There is a hack to support this for use by Windows: >> >> <https://openprinting.github.io/wsl-printer-app/> >> >> Highlights: >> >> - run Ubuntu in WSL2 (requires Win11) >> >> - use ubunto-previow because that allows systemd, which is needed >> >> - use <https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win> to pass through the USB >> device to Ubuntu >> >> He is about to try this. I hope it work >> >> Boy is that a lot of duct tape. >> --- >> Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org >> Unsubscribe from this mailing list >> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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