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by cptaffe 1049 days ago
I started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post
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triyambakam 1049 days ago
I love it! I have my printer hooked up to my network with an Raspberry Pi and would be glad to make it easier to print from the iPad.
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kotaKat 1048 days ago
I had to have a HomeBridge server already and was running it from a Pi Zero W -- I just decided to bolt it onto the back of the printer and make it pull double-duty as the CUPS box.

A little party trick -- depending on the printer, you might be able to get an "in line" power tap/Y splitter for the power cord to run the Pi and the printer off the same outlet. (My printer takes a normal C14, so I just split and slapped a USB brick on the other end.)

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cptaffe 1048 days ago
This is cool! Blurring the line between what is and isn't part of the printer itself
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Tepix 1048 days ago
Neat. I am also using a Raspberry Pi to keep my (18 year old) Samsung CLP510N alive, however the Raspberry Pi also runs Pi-Hole (DNS Adblock). I'm curious if i can combine avahi (for air print) and pi-hole?
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