[PLUG] Cheap printer for Raspberry Pi idea

[wes]

I found an old HP deskjet 1000 at a thrift store that takes a plain 12v dc
power supply. I got it for the same goal, to power it straight off the car.
Haven't bothered to search for ink yet....

-wes

On Monday, August 21, 2017, Dave <W7DAL at comcast.net> wrote:

> Battery printers have existed for many decades Michael but I wouldn't
> know where to refer you today.  Household appliance repairmen and others
> carry them on the job for tech analysis reports and receipts. Should not
> be too hard to find an OEM. Someone here should know.  -Dave.
>
>
> On 8/20/2017 11:08 PM, 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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