Turning a 15-year-old Canon PIXMA MP250 printer into a network printer was much easier than I initially thought.
  • Forestial@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Good work. I tried to do similarly with a HP CP1025nw (roughly 10 years old), which has become unreliable with Windows 11. But although I connected the printer to the Pi (I used a model 3B) with a USB cable, CUPS does not appear to see the “usb://…” connection string. CUPS does allow me to connect to the printer wirelessly, with a connection string that begins “dnssd://…”.

    So I have it working wirelessly but I was hoping to get it using USB since I suspect that would be more reliable.

    I’m wondering why your Pi allows the “usb://…” method, but mine does not.

    • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
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      5 months ago

      Some HP printers require proprietary firmware be loaded over USB. You could try hplip but I found that although my printer is explicitly supported it couldn’t identify it via device ID.