Good to know. What would be really great is to find a similar printer that would run from 12VDC. I'd like to set up a completely portable fly-away package that ran from 12VDC to utilize battery/vehicle/solar power.
Michael On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2017-August/087027.html > > Here's a follow-up report: > > /I ordered an HP Deskjet 1112 from Amazon for this application. It claims > // > //to have full support for Linux Debian (RPi?) and Mint via USB. For $29 > it's // > //worth a try. If it works, it should be a perfect small addition to a // > //stand-alone RPi student learning station.// > / > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Received the HP Deskjet 1112 and installed it first in Windows 7 to make > sure it worked. Then installed it to a Raspberry Pi 3B. > > The software installation went mostly smoothly, carefully following the > detailed instructions and accepting the defaults found at: > > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html > > They are close enough. (You do NOT have to worry about editing some ??? > file mentioned. It's not on the RPi.) > > The only glitch was the install requires a root/superuser password. If I > had one it apparently didn't like it so I added *sudo passwd root* and > made "*root*" the password. That worked. In the future I'll do up front > before beginning the software install to get it out of the way. > > I'm quite pleased with the results. For the price, it is a lot of > printer; quick, and excellent quality. But the HP software isn't > perfect. I can't get it to print the last page first despite a tab to > that effect, and it doesn't print footers despite showing them on the > screen. Since the printed text appears to be a little larger than it > should that probably explains the missing footers. I may be doing > something wrong, but again, for $29, and having an easy RPi3 Install, > this ain't bad. > > Will also be installing the 1112 to a Linux MINT machine just to wring > it out some more and see what happens. Hope this helps someone. > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
