Raspberry PI AS printer
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 7:24 am
by aravindanr
I am wondering whether RasPI can be connected to a Windows PC through USB and appear to Windows as a printer. I want to process the PRINT command from Windows differently, say send that data to a webservice rather than printing it.
Is this possible?
Re: Raspberry PI AS printer
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:34 am
by FLYFISH TECHNOLOGIES
Hi,
aravindanr wrote:Is this possible?
No.
Details are described here (swap word "display" with "printer" and the text becomes 100% applicable to your question):
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/viewto ... 56#p473056
Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.
Re: Raspberry PI AS printer
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:58 am
by DougieLawson
aravindanr wrote:I am wondering whether RasPI can be connected to a Windows PC through USB and appear to Windows as a printer. I want to process the PRINT command from Windows differently, say send that data to a webservice rather than printing it.
Is this possible?
Install cutepdf, that's a windows printer driver that writes a PDF. You can store the PDFs on your RPi and serve them out from there.