Portable printer?

Joachim Ott jo.omsl at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 29 17:40:04 CEST 2010


On 29 March 2010 13:22, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote:
> Iurii <yuri at reverseenterprises.com> writes:
>> i wanted to say FR
>
> FR can act as a USB 1.1 host. Unless your printer explicitely wants
> USB 2.0 it should work.
>
>> i wondering if you can suggest me any distro which is going to support some
>> sort of printing devices.
>
> Debian supports a large number of printers.
>
>> * maybe you had a practice with that and you are able to suggest a model of
>> a portable printer as well?
>
> You can use
>
> http://www.openprinting.org/printers/
>
> to see what printers are supported by free software.
>
>> *it can be wifi printer or even usb
>
> At least unencrypted wifi works with only one minor issue that is easy
> to workaround [http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket//2333]. I can not
> promise much about complicated WPA networks.

This is an error when you terminate nwa, it happens now and then.
Anyway, I can print with an encrypted connection too, and I would be
wondering why it should not work, it's just a tcp connection to a
specific port.



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