I've got an older, very reliable Brother laser that I use occasionally. It's only got a USB interface, no Wireless. I want to connect it to my WiFi network so I can print to it from any device, including android phones. I'm not coughing up £50 for a dedicated print server as I have Raspberry Pi's and several old laptops that will never get used again.
I'm thinking the easiest solution is perhaps to connect an old laptop to it, share it, and when I need to print, I turn on the laptop and the printer and it should be visible on the network. My only concern there is the time it will take to boot the laptop... I don't want to be waiting 10 minutes before I can print.
Any other ideas ? It's a HL-L5000D - and there's no specific driver for it on the CUPS website for a Pi based print server. Ideally I want a solution where I just turn the printer on and start printing to it immediately, the prints coming out once the printer has warmed up.
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"This download includes the CUPS Driver"
Any use?
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I just walk over to the printer (which you have to do anyway to retrieve what you've printed) plug in the laptop and it starts printing in seconds.
Sometimes things which have always just sat there and quietly worked for decades, like old printers and electricity meters are just the way things ought to be.
I got lucky; my printer connects to the house network on a cable, the router is a print server, every PC - plus the phones and tablets - can see it and print to it.
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