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for some reason i needed a mobile printer one day. it had to be movable, reliable and plug'n'print. to be more specific here's an unordered list of what it should be able to do:
- print on endless paper
- plug in into an existing network (with dhcp configuration) and print all new mails from a specific account each 10 minutes
- be heavy enough not to slide around all the time
- be light enough to be easily moved around
- no configuration, no login or whatever on startup, just push the button and it works
- easy maintenance (in case e.g. the cartridge is empty)
- low cost
- print on endless paper
- plug in into an existing network (with dhcp configuration) and print all new mails from a specific account each 10 minutes
- be heavy enough not to slide around all the time
- be light enough to be easily moved around
- no configuration, no login or whatever on startup, just push the button and it works
- easy maintenance (in case e.g. the cartridge is empty)
- low cost
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Signing UpStep 1Setting up the printer
(sorry no pic. i'll keep this step short since i don't want to go too much into technical details - you guys who know linux are able to do this better anyway ;-) )
after purchasing a cheap old dot-matrix printer on ebay and checking for the matching drivers i installed a very basic debian system (non-graphical, just textbased) on an old computer i had lying around (400 mhz, 250 mb, 4 gb from 1998). configuration was easily done in cups via a textbased www-browser on the machine. as you can see here i'm quite a noob - didn't know how to do it better (but i'm sure there is a better way). after setting up and configuring a mailclient i wrote a simple script that invokes the client, converts the incoming mails the way i needed them and sends them to the printer. a cronjob then runs the script every ten minutes. so far so easy.
after purchasing a cheap old dot-matrix printer on ebay and checking for the matching drivers i installed a very basic debian system (non-graphical, just textbased) on an old computer i had lying around (400 mhz, 250 mb, 4 gb from 1998). configuration was easily done in cups via a textbased www-browser on the machine. as you can see here i'm quite a noob - didn't know how to do it better (but i'm sure there is a better way). after setting up and configuring a mailclient i wrote a simple script that invokes the client, converts the incoming mails the way i needed them and sends them to the printer. a cronjob then runs the script every ten minutes. so far so easy.
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http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/~sasha/LinuxFocus/English/January2001/article186.shtml maybe that?