I have a headless RaspberryPi Zero W that I wish to use as a server for remote printing so my neighbours and myself can have a common printer. The printer unfortunately is an HP LaserJet 1020 - the one my neighbour has happily given to me. But setting it up as a remote printer has been a horrible experience for me.
I'll write down a few of the commands I have tried to get it to work.
First I made sure that the laptop is connected to the laptop with the command :
lsusb
When I could see the HP printer I proceeded with:
sudo apt install cups hplips printer-driver-foo2zjs printer-driver-foo2zjs-common printer-driver-foo2zjs
From my laptop browser, I went to <my.ipv4.address>:631 and added the HP printer. Selected the driver. Checked the Shared Printer option.
Now, I rebooted the pi, re connected the printer, and tried to print something via my Linux Mint laptop. no luck
Then, I read around and found that I need to run the command:
sudo hp-setup
So, I ssh'ed back into the pi and tried to run this command and the entire pi crashed.
Has anyone managed to get this darn machine working nicely?
We're all Linux users, so I don't need to install samba and all that.
Have you tried printing locally?
Using HPlips, I got it to work on one laptop. It requires the use of a GUi and very temperamental for some reason. I can only give print commands from the HP printing center software where I need to click and drag files into it to get it to print.
It is very inconvenient.