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This reminds me of something I did a few years ago. I had an old printer for which the drivers did not work properly on Windows. Connected the printer to a Zero W and it became accessible to every device on my network through CUPS. I even made it print PDF attachments from emails [1].
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I do something similar with my (non-Rollo, generic model that a half dozen generic Chinese brands sell on Amazon) USB label printer. My ASUS router's firmware (<https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/>) supports a print server via its USB port. Although described as LPD/LPR, I found that it also supports JetDirect/AppSocket, supported within MacOS.
You still have to install a printer driver on the computer side (I found that a different label printer's driver works better than the one the vendor offers for download; go figure), but after telling MacOS to print to `socket://router`, everything works.
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Heh, I'm doing a similar thing with a random cheap internet radio and Apple AirPlay: My Rasbperry Pi is running AirConnect in a Docker container and converts all UPnP devices to AirPlay recipients.
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I got mine in 2006. Hooked up to my NAS and HPLIP and CUPS. Unfortunately foo2zjs is discontinued and there's a bug with HPLIP. You have to power it on twice to load the firmware ...
AirPrint does only really work with this script:
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I’ve got a and old WiFi Brother label printer with AirPrint built in and I love it.
If anybody is looking for home inventory software to work with their label printer, please check out this project I’ve been working on https://www.thingybase.com/
There’s documentation for how it works with label printers at https://www.thingybase.com/help/printers. If you try it and it doesn’t work quite right with your label printer open and issue at https://github.com/thingybase/community/issues
If you’re curious all the stuff you can do with a label printer in a home setting, I’ve got a list of projects I’ve done at https://www.thingybase.com/projects
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