I have an old Brother laser printer that’s been doing fine and doesn’t need to be replaced, but it only supports USB. Is there a device besides an old computer/laptop that would make it a shared wireless printer that supports windows machines well? I’m pretty sure i could come up with something myself, but i would prefer an off-the-shelf solution that handles updates and bugs without needing any attention from me.
Edit: Raspberry Pi 5 ordered!
U can probs get ur hands on a raspberry pi pretry cheap and put cups on it. Seems very doable chatgpt will strait up give u a step by step.
Wouldn’t I need to get a unique ARM driver for the usb printer to work?
CUPS eats printers and shits out function, it’s all open source so underlying isa doesn’t matter much.
Cups when u add a printer figures that all out and gets the appropriate driver and things u need to print.
It didn’t and I ended up with a generic driver that’s lacking a lot of function. Not the worst, and it mostly does what I need.
Oof unlucky. Did it not have ur printer in the setup wizard. Whats missing from the generic driver?
Looks like toner status and some other notifications.