The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network

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  1. brlaser

    Brother laser printer driver

    After a couple of DDG searches, I found brlaser - a community-driven Brother driver. Perfect! I installed CUPS, compiled the driver, and shared the printer over the network.

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  3. packer-builder-arm

    Packer plugin to build ARM images

    I tried the packer-builder-arm first, but it couldn't run my Ansible playbook due to a bug. I applied a patch but quickly ran into other issues.

  4. packer-plugin-arm-image

    Packer plugin for ARM images

    At that point, I decided to use packer-plugin-arm-image instead. The setup did not work out of the box, but after a simple PR, it built my first empty image and proved it's possible to build an ARM image locally.

  5. printer-rpi-image

    Packer config to build RaspiOS image with cups and RAW printers

    The final solution with a comprehensive README can be found under the maciekmm/printer-rpi-image github repo.

  6. CUPS

    Apple CUPS Sources

    That did not put me off. I have never been printing much and could live with the cable. I also knew I could attach it to a print server such as CUPS and add networking capabilities to the network-impaired printer. I had a Raspberry Pi Zero sitting around, and I wouldn't hesitate to use it. This post is a story about the journey I experienced setting it up.

  7. PKGBUILDs

    PKGBUILDs modified to build on Arch Linux ARM

    I flashed Arch Linux ARM onto my RPi and went driver hunting. It turned out the manufacturer does not support the ARM architecture.

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