Printer On Pandora


trevormacro

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Hello,

I want to connect a printer to my pandora.
What printers is compatible with pandora ? work with application.
 
My pandora is being repaired then i can't make any tests, what I'm almost sure is that cups isn't installed on the pandora, cups is the software that linux uses to manage printers. You can try to install it via opkg (I guess it exists on the repositories) but maybe it's too big for the nand.

By the way: here are the supported printers by cups

http://www.cups.org/ppd.php?L+I0+T+Q
 
I wouldn't install cups on the Pandora. It's large, and 95% or more of its size is there to handle the case when a printer is connected directly to the Pandora. What you need is only the part that talks to a networked printer. Put a printer on your home computer or something, run it locally with Cups there if you wish, then install lpr or lprng or any of the other very small printing tools. The printer support of a local Cups isn't used when you print remotely, you just send off your file (in whatever format the remote Cups and/or printer supports, e.g. postscript, pdf, pictures, text). That's why you can just use something very simple instead.
 
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