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Any way to make a USB thermal printer wifi print capable (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically I have a wifi thermal printer I use for all sorts of things that I'd love to be able to print to when I'm not home. It has a USB connection on the back and it is Bluetooth capable. Not sure about Ethernet but I don't think so because I would have already tried that (I think). Any suggestions?

Also is there any open source protocol that can function similar to what Google print used to do?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Use something like a Raspberry Pi as a relay maybe? Send the print jobs to the Pi via Wifi, which would send it to the printer via USB.