Battery printers have existed for many decades Michael but I wouldn't know where to refer you today. Household appliance repairmen and others carry them on the job for tech analysis reports and receipts. Should not be too hard to find an OEM. Someone here should know. -Dave.
On 8/20/2017 11:08 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
