[PLUG] Cheap printer for Raspberry Pi idea

[Michael Barnes]

Good to know. What would be really great is to find a similar printer that
would run from 12VDC. I'd like to set up a completely portable fly-away
package that ran from 12VDC to utilize battery/vehicle/solar power.

Michael


On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Dave <W7DAL at comcast.net> wrote:

> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2017-August/087027.html
>
> Here's a follow-up report:
>
> /I ordered an HP Deskjet 1112 from Amazon for this application. It claims
> //
> //to have full support for Linux Debian (RPi?) and Mint via USB. For $29
> it's //
> //worth a try. If it works, it should be a perfect small addition to a //
> //stand-alone RPi student learning station.//
> /
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Received the HP Deskjet 1112 and installed it first in Windows 7 to make
> sure it worked. Then installed it to a Raspberry Pi 3B.
>
> The software installation went mostly smoothly, carefully following the
> detailed instructions and accepting the defaults found at:
>
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html
>
> They are close enough. (You do NOT have to worry about editing some ???
> file mentioned. It's not on the RPi.)
>
> The only glitch was the install requires a root/superuser password. If I
> had one it apparently didn't like it so I added *sudo passwd root* and
> made "*root*" the password. That worked. In the future I'll do up front
> before beginning the software install to get it out of the way.
>
> I'm quite pleased with the results. For the price, it is a lot of
> printer; quick, and excellent quality. But the HP software isn't
> perfect. I can't get it to print the last page first despite a tab to
> that effect, and it doesn't print footers despite showing them on the
> screen. Since the printed text appears to be a little larger than it
> should that probably explains the missing footers. I may be doing
> something wrong, but again, for $29, and having an easy RPi3 Install,
> this ain't bad.
>
> Will also be installing the 1112 to a Linux MINT machine just to wring
> it out some more and see what happens. Hope this helps someone.
>
>
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