[PLUG] Cheap printer for Raspberry Pi idea

[wes]

I have a pop-can shaped inverter that fits nicely in a cup holder. It's not
so powerful it they causes problems with power draw. On really hot days, I
plug a fan in so I can pretend I'm ok with not having air conditioning.

-wes

On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, Tom <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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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