I have an old Brother laser printer that’s been doing fine and doesn’t need to be replaced, but it only supports USB. Is there a device besides an old computer/laptop that would make it a shared wireless printer that supports windows machines well? I’m pretty sure i could come up with something myself, but i would prefer an off-the-shelf solution that handles updates and bugs without needing any attention from me.
Edit: Raspberry Pi 5 ordered!
U can probs get ur hands on a raspberry pi pretry cheap and put cups on it. Seems very doable chatgpt will strait up give u a step by step.
Wouldn’t I need to get a unique ARM driver for the usb printer to work?
Cups when u add a printer figures that all out and gets the appropriate driver and things u need to print.
It didn’t and I ended up with a generic driver that’s lacking a lot of function. Not the worst, and it mostly does what I need.
Oof unlucky. Did it not have ur printer in the setup wizard. Whats missing from the generic driver?
Looks like toner status and some other notifications.
CUPS eats printers and shits out function, it’s all open source so underlying isa doesn’t matter much.