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Printing from Mobian - johnd - 05-11-2021
What experiences have people here had with printing from Mobian (or any Pinephone
OS)?
I can print once only from Firefox-esr after a re-boot, then no printers show up
in Firefox or any other app. I have a RPi running a cups print server, which
at first allows any of 3 printers to be found, but after one print job, they are
not found.
I'd like to hear of any your ideas, or successes in printing.
John
RE: Printing from Mobian - johnd - 05-13-2021
Update:
I had better results by ignoring my CUPS print server and installing cups on
mobian to print directly to my wireless printer.
sudo apt-get install cups cups-client lpr
Then adding my phone user to lpadmin
sudo adduser mobian lpadmin
Then run CUPS from the browser
http://localhost:631
Log in as mobian with phone passcode.
Go to Administration, Add Printer, and for me, choose ldp://<PrinterAddress>
To get this to work, I used the PrinterAddress from my other cups server, which
happens to be BrotherHL270-W/BINARY-P1.
This has allowed reliable printing from firefox-esr, Text Editor (gedit),
Image Viewer (eog) and Document Viewer (evince) but not Evolution or the command
line.
RE: Printing from Mobian - dukla2000 - 05-13-2021
(05-13-2021, 12:00 AM)johnd Wrote: ... installing cups on mobian to print directly to my wireless printer.Is how I do it. Yes have noticed evolution has a mind of its own.
sudo apt-get install cups cups-client lpr
Then adding my phone user to lpadmin
sudo adduser mobian lpadmin
Then run CUPS from the browser http://localhost:631
Log in as mobian with phone passcode.
Go to Administration, Add Printer, and for me, choose ldp://<PrinterAddress>
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