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Anonymous Sat Jan 5 12:54:13 2019 No.1530640 [Reply] [Original]

Pi powered printer?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 12:56:02 2019 No.1530644 no

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 12:57:37 2019 No.1530645 >>1530640 New to all of this. Can i just use a rasberry to run a printer? If so, is there a certain rasberry to buy? The b+? Do they come with more ram than 1gig? Questions

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:03:04 2019 No.1530650 >>1530645 What do you mean by 'powered'? Is the Pi gatewaying for a printer? Is it actually running the steppers and print head or laser and fuser? What kind of printer?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 15:03:31 2019 No.1530741 >>1530650 Sorry. I should have proof read. I want to use a pi instead of a computer to connect to a 3d printer

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 15:05:16 2019 No.1530743 >>1530741 Yeah octopie is widely used for that, go ahead

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 15:06:20 2019 No.1530746 I tried that. You must offload everything to computer, otherwise the pi will "render" page for 10 minutes. Also some hp drivers don't load the firmware automatically and it needs to be installed separately from hp website.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 8 23:39:53 2019 No.1533137 >>1530746 >hp >3d printer >render pages Jesus christ dude which one is it? Is it a 3d printer or not? octopi makes raspberry pi act as a flash drive with wifi capabilities, in short.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 9 10:00:52 2019 No.1533339 Arduino + laptop appeals to me over a pi.