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Printing is the act of transferring data from a computer to another medium. The most common act is transferring data from a computer to paper.

Printing is the act of transferring data from a computer to another medium. The most common act is transferring data from a computer to paper. This is commonly achieved via a printer.

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  1. How can I set up a print server?
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How can I set up a print server?

I would like to use my Pi as a print server. My printer is supported by the computer I want to use as a print server. Is it fast enough and has enough for this? How do I setup a print server with the recommended debian image?
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CUPS is too slow, how can I make it faster?

I'm using CUPS for my Samsung CLP-315. It works very well, but it is too slow. It normally takes five minutes or more to print a single page (from pdf). When it's printing, gs is taking 100% of the CPU. Is there a way to make the gs at the printing…
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How do I connect my printer to the serial GPIO pins?

I've purchased a Mini Thermal Printer from Adafruit. The documentation states: This printer is ideal for interfacing with a microcontroller, you simply need a 3.3V to 5V TTL serial output from your microcontroller Since the serial pins on the…
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3d print host / arduino IDE setup/ 3d modeling

I have a reprap 3d printer, and I'm wanting to make it into an 'all in one' solution. I'd love to be able to mount my Rasp(arrives monday), a small screen, etc on the frame of the reprap. seeing as i have a working 3d printer, brackets to do so…
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Thermal printer with Raspberry Pi 2 outputs only Chinese chars

Following thermal printer + raspi2 tutorial for printing images (https://learn.adafruit.com/networked-thermal-printer-using-cups-and-raspberry-pi/connect-and-configure-printer), I've already connected the TTL printer through TX and RX serial…
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Raspberry Pi and CUPS with Canon Printers

I'm trying to use my Raspberry Pi as an Air Print gateway to my Canon MX860 printer (I only care about printing functions, even though it's an all-in-one printer, it doesn't matter to me to get scanning and faxing working) So, I have CUPs installed,…
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CUPS Printer Stalls at "Sending Data to Printer"

This is related to a previous problem, though the problem has changed significantly so, I have opened a new thread. I'm trying to set up a Cannon iP4850 with Cups (for my Raspberry Pi) running on Debian. I've got cups installed, then compiled the…
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Raspberry Pi 2 and thermal printer

I try to print some text with python and a thermal receipt printer by a Raspberry Pi 2 model B. I use the library developped by Adafruit and the printer sold by Adafruit too. But it fails. The only thing working is the println function, and at least…
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Paper printable case for Raspberry Pi 2?

There is the punnet paper printable case, but it's for the old version of the Raspberry Pi. I have a Raspberry Pi 2, does a similar printable case template exist some place for this model?
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Print output not shown when run Python script CRON

I am automatically running a simple python program from start up using cron. The pi boots / automatically logs in, displays the command line and runs the python program but the print output (updating count) is not displayed. The print output works…
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RPI 3B and Tiny Thermal Printer - Unable to use python library

I'm having trouble hooking up my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B to my Adafruit Tiny Thermal Printer (nb: not the mini thermal printer - this is the one with a mini-USB port built in). I've got it connected via mini-USB to USB in my rPi, it's connected to…
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Thermal printer does not react

I'm (now for some weeks) trying to get a thermal printer (ttl) to work without success. I've done every step exactly like said in this tutorial but the printer does nothing. Since I don't know how to debug this kind of problem and I also couldn't…
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Samsung Multifunction Printer with CUPS failing to print

I'm trying to get my Samsung SCX-3405W printer working on my Raspberry Pi Model B+, running Raspbian and CUPS, and I seem to be running into a wall with "rastertospl" or the corresponding PPD. $ uname -a Linux raspi01 3.18.5+ #744 PREEMPT Fri Jan…
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Using Raspberry Pi as print server

By looking at a cool project and remembering that I have occasional problems connecting my old Cannon LBP1120 printer with Ubuntu, I thought if Raspberry is capable to work as print server. (As a Print server I mean that it is possible to print from…
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Receiving emails to raspberry pi and then sending to print?

Is it possible to wifi enable the Raspberry Pi so that it could receive emails? They are just photos automatically sent from my photo account, so there is no text. Then it needs to automatically send the images from the email over Bluetooth to a…
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