How long do printers last? High-use printers might not last a few years. And even for printers that are well-maintained or low-use, and the operating system might go out of style. How do you extend the life of a printer when operating systems rende them useless? Raspberry Pi and Linux. See more from hackaday:
Around here, printers have a life expectancy of about two years if we are lucky. But [techtipsy] has a family member who has milked a long life from an old Canon PIXMA printer. That is, until Microsoft or Canon decided it was too old to print anymore. With Windows 10, it took some hacking to get it to work, but Windows 11 was the death knell. Well, it would have been if not for [techtipsy’s] ingenuity with a Raspberry Pi.
It is a simple task to connect the printer to the Pi, set up CUPS, and then share the printer over the network. While Windows doesn’t want to drive the printer directly, it is more than happy to talk to it as a network printer.
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