Can I print on a Linux local printer using a remote windows driver?
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I have 10 Raspberry Pi's (RPI) all of which have their own USB Zebra GK420d label printer. After installing CUPS to each of them I can print labels to their printer using EPL2 PPD but it is too slow, especially for PDFs. Only two variants of print jobs get printed: PDFs from Evince, and generated web pages from Chromium.
When printing PDFs on a RPI through CUPS the filter process is pdftopdf -> gstoraster -> rastertolabel, which takes too long to print. Can this be sped up? Can I send a job from a Linux machine to a Windows machine which will then send 'the same job' to the same Linux machines printer to print, using the Windows driver? Or am I simply overlooking something?
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I have 10 Raspberry Pi's (RPI) all of which have their own USB Zebra GK420d label printer. After installing CUPS to each of them I can print labels to their printer using EPL2 PPD but it is too slow, especially for PDFs. Only two variants of print jobs get printed: PDFs from Evince, and generated web pages from Chromium.
When printing PDFs on a RPI through CUPS the filter process is pdftopdf -> gstoraster -> rastertolabel, which takes too long to print. Can this be sped up? Can I send a job from a Linux machine to a Windows machine which will then send 'the same job' to the same Linux machines printer to print, using the Windows driver? Or am I simply overlooking something?
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I have 10 Raspberry Pi's (RPI) all of which have their own USB Zebra GK420d label printer. After installing CUPS to each of them I can print labels to their printer using EPL2 PPD but it is too slow, especially for PDFs. Only two variants of print jobs get printed: PDFs from Evince, and generated web pages from Chromium.
When printing PDFs on a RPI through CUPS the filter process is pdftopdf -> gstoraster -> rastertolabel, which takes too long to print. Can this be sped up? Can I send a job from a Linux machine to a Windows machine which will then send 'the same job' to the same Linux machines printer to print, using the Windows driver? Or am I simply overlooking something?
linux raspberry-pi printing cups
asked Jul 12 at 15:00
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I have 10 Raspberry Pi's (RPI) all of which have their own USB Zebra GK420d label printer. After installing CUPS to each of them I can print labels to their printer using EPL2 PPD but it is too slow, especially for PDFs. Only two variants of print jobs get printed: PDFs from Evince, and generated web pages from Chromium.
When printing PDFs on a RPI through CUPS the filter process is pdftopdf -> gstoraster -> rastertolabel, which takes too long to print. Can this be sped up? Can I send a job from a Linux machine to a Windows machine which will then send 'the same job' to the same Linux machines printer to print, using the Windows driver? Or am I simply overlooking something?
linux raspberry-pi printing cups
asked Jul 12 at 15:00
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asked Jul 12 at 15:00
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asked Jul 12 at 15:00
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