[PLUG] Cheap printer for Raspberry Pi idea

[Tom]

I solved this kind of portability, and more, by purchasing an inverter.
I find that way more universal than trying to get stuff working on
battery power with unstable voltage. True 110V socket in the car is
awesome for road and marine trips. The size of the inverter is about
15x20x5cm.
If you chose to go this route, I would advice to get true sine wave
inverter. It costs 2-3x more but it works way better than the square
and/or modified sine wave inverters. They (not the true sine wave one)
caused my power bricks + the inverter to overheat and it was bloody
noisy. You can draw max 15A out of lighter socket in the car so 120
-150W inverter is all you can feed without wiring it directly to the
battery. I got it in Frys' after returning the cheaper modified sine
wave one. 
Hope it helps, Tomas
On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 23:08 -0700, Michael Barnes wrote:
> 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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