Hello All, I have a friend I assist as best I can, who has a Samsung Galaxy Tab S that he wishes to print photos from. I think I found an app in the Google Play store, by Googling from my notebook on a dial up connection, but not quite sure of requirements and limitations. While it is probably possible to print direct to a wi-fi network colour laser, I have in mind a Brother HL-3045CN and attaching it to some switch or router with both wired and wi-fi support. Any information from experience and comments would be appreciated. I am still looking for information on CUPS and printing from Debian 7.8 to a Canon LBP-5050N, the error message relates to a "Broken pipe" and I continue to nose around CUPS and the configuration and scratch my head and get splinters. Regards, Mark Trickett
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 4/07/2015 8:37 PM, Mark Trickett wrote:
I have a friend I assist as best I can, who has a Samsung Galaxy Tab S that he wishes to print photos from. I think I found an app in the Google Play store, by Googling from my notebook on a dial up connection, but not quite sure of requirements and limitations. While it is probably possible to print direct to a wi-fi network colour laser, I have in mind a Brother HL-3045CN and attaching it to some switch or router with both wired and wi-fi support. Any information from experience and comments would be appreciated.
Do wired, not wireless. You have a WAP, use that to get to the wired connection. Having two interfaces working for a printer is a waste and wired is generally better than wireless. There is a Brother app, I have it on my phone, it's not the neatest app; but it can print and scan things. Cheers A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlWZeUgACgkQqBZry7fv4vvm3QEAjldl3lC7kflDsPGAi7thT4BX jZ33m71iRFnxEqFNltEA/j0/sBQi1lWLpHHHAY3zHsGsolSbZBdEax8xLVIdd7wy =Cx20 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hello Andrew, Have been off line for much of the week, dial up and early mornings and early nights tend to clash. On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 04:36 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
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Hi,
On 4/07/2015 8:37 PM, Mark Trickett wrote:
I have a friend I assist as best I can, who has a Samsung Galaxy Tab S that he wishes to print photos from. I think I found an app in the Google Play store, by Googling from my notebook on a dial up connection, but not quite sure of requirements and limitations. While it is probably possible to print direct to a wi-fi network colour laser, I have in mind a Brother HL-3045CN and attaching it to some switch or router with both wired and wi-fi support. Any information from experience and comments would be appreciated.
Do wired, not wireless. You have a WAP, use that to get to the wired connection. Having two interfaces working for a printer is a waste and wired is generally better than wireless.
Do not yet have WAP nor switch/router with wi-fi, but looking where to jump. The HL-3045CN is wired only, I want to use the HL-3075CW myself, it has Brotherscript, a superset (hopefully) of Postscript, but need to check a few things at some point. Probably configure that wired only, but possible to detach from wired and configure for wi-fi for intermittent special case access.
There is a Brother app, I have it on my phone, it's not the neatest app; but it can print and scan things.
I think I saw the app mentioned on a web page when looking on dial up, probably in the Google Play Store. Knowing that it will work is good, but will need to set up a wi-fi access point for that printer, along with laptop access via network cable. It has been used for one PC with USB connection prior to this, but that will change in due course. I still need to sort out some configuration complications with the Canon LBP-5050N and the CAPT driver and CUPS for good photo printing. The Postscript printer problems discussion has given me a pointer or two, but also a lot more to research and learn. CUPS configuration is not straightforward, I am still trying to find all the files and comprehend, but it starts to look like there might be some in non text formats.
Cheers A.
Regards, Mark Trickett
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