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Thank you, loved this and it made me "duh!". I have an old-ish Samsung laser printer that works perfectly and a Linux file server at home and the printer no lo

by juancn 6mo ago

Thank you, loved this and it made me "duh!". I have an old-ish Samsung laser printer that works perfectly and a Linux file server at home and the printer no longer supports AirPrint. I never thought about using the Linux box as an AirPrint server! This will free me from all the odd print requests from my kids! (probably)

mikepurvis 6mo ago
I have a Samsung ML-1740 kicking around still that I just can't bear to part with; I've been meaning forever to RasPi-ify it, but it's one of those projects that feels like it's going to end up being a rabbit hole.
- HeyMeco 6mo ago
  ML-1740 is supported by the driver available here: https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/index.html https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/index.html Works on my arm64 sbc as a cups printer for another samsung printer
  - ValdikSS 6mo ago
    It's a Samsung SPL device, it's supported by SpliX: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/splix https://github.com/OpenPrinting/splix
    - mikepurvis 6mo ago
      Yup, I used splix with it for years on Mac, so I think that will be the way to go.
- ValdikSS 6mo ago
  >but it's one of those projects that feels like it's going to end up being a rabbit hole. I know your feelings. I've started https://printserver.ink https://printserver.ink because I wanted to buy a retail print server and could not find any. I was expecting half a year overall work for everything, but fixing all printer-related bugs for 3 years already.
  - mikepurvis 6mo ago
    Ah nice. If I supply my own raspi zero 2W, can I buy just a software license from you? Doing the software integration is the part I'm least looking forward to. :(
    - ValdikSS 6mo ago
      Unfortunately the firmware supports only Orange Pi Zero3. It's a hardware+software solution, because to make reliable print server, you have to control both and fix SoC/board specific bugs. For example, USB 1.1 OHCI has too high latency to work with my old printer, and needs a kernel patch: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/3fe845b9-1328-4b40-8b02-61a879bea6df@valdikss.org.ru/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/3fe845b9-1328-4b40-8b02-61... Greg does not accept my patch and does not reply to me, presumably because I'm Russian and he doesn't want legal consequences. Raspberry Pi unfortunately have quite list of USB hub bugs and Wi-Fi module bugs (according to their GitHub and reports all over the Internet), and I'm not familiar with it and don't know how to fix. That's why I don't make generic firmware or container images, and stick only to my board which I know from start to end.
asteroidburger 6mo ago
It’ll work great if you can get the drivers all aligned properly. I’ve tried a few times to get my 12 year old Brother laser setup like that, and each time I end up throwing in the towel. Maybe I’ll try it again someday with an LLM assisting.
- juancn 6mo ago
  CUPS just worked, it even supports AirPrint natively now. Thankfully my printer supports IPP (it's an all in one office type), so I didn't have to do much other than install a couple packages, add the printer and configure the default paper size.
NegativeLatency 6mo ago
Been doing something similar with a Samsung printer and CUPS for years, it’s great Found this helpful for generating some of the config files: https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate

by juancn 6mo ago

mikepurvis 6mo ago

I have a Samsung ML-1740 kicking around still that I just can't bear to part with; I've been meaning forever to RasPi-ify it, but it's one of those projects that feels like it's going to end up being a rabbit hole.

HeyMeco 6mo ago
ML-1740 is supported by the driver available here: https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/index.html https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/index.html Works on my arm64 sbc as a cups printer for another samsung printer
- ValdikSS 6mo ago
  It's a Samsung SPL device, it's supported by SpliX: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/splix https://github.com/OpenPrinting/splix
  - mikepurvis 6mo ago
    Yup, I used splix with it for years on Mac, so I think that will be the way to go.
ValdikSS 6mo ago
>but it's one of those projects that feels like it's going to end up being a rabbit hole. I know your feelings. I've started https://printserver.ink https://printserver.ink because I wanted to buy a retail print server and could not find any. I was expecting half a year overall work for everything, but fixing all printer-related bugs for 3 years already.
- mikepurvis 6mo ago
  Ah nice. If I supply my own raspi zero 2W, can I buy just a software license from you? Doing the software integration is the part I'm least looking forward to. :(
  - ValdikSS 6mo ago
    Unfortunately the firmware supports only Orange Pi Zero3. It's a hardware+software solution, because to make reliable print server, you have to control both and fix SoC/board specific bugs. For example, USB 1.1 OHCI has too high latency to work with my old printer, and needs a kernel patch: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/3fe845b9-1328-4b40-8b02-61a879bea6df@valdikss.org.ru/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/3fe845b9-1328-4b40-8b02-61... Greg does not accept my patch and does not reply to me, presumably because I'm Russian and he doesn't want legal consequences. Raspberry Pi unfortunately have quite list of USB hub bugs and Wi-Fi module bugs (according to their GitHub and reports all over the Internet), and I'm not familiar with it and don't know how to fix. That's why I don't make generic firmware or container images, and stick only to my board which I know from start to end.

asteroidburger 6mo ago

It’ll work great if you can get the drivers all aligned properly. I’ve tried a few times to get my 12 year old Brother laser setup like that, and each time I end up throwing in the towel. Maybe I’ll try it again someday with an LLM assisting.

juancn 6mo ago
CUPS just worked, it even supports AirPrint natively now. Thankfully my printer supports IPP (it's an all in one office type), so I didn't have to do much other than install a couple packages, add the printer and configure the default paper size.

NegativeLatency 6mo ago

Been doing something similar with a Samsung printer and CUPS for years, it’s great Found this helpful for generating some of the config files: https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate