{"id":11193,"date":"2023-12-15T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:51:11","slug":"setting-up-pi-cups-to-print-and-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/setting-up-pi-cups-to-print-and-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up Pi Cups to Print and Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Yesterday I decided to play with the Common Unix Printing system (CUPS). I followed [this tutorial](https:\/\/pimylifeup.com\/raspberry-pi-print-server\/) and within a reasonable amount of time I had set up a pi 3 to serve as a print server for an old printer. Sometimes you use printers and scanners by plugging them in to the laptop you&#8217;re currently using. With modern macs this means finding a USB 2 to USB C connector, moving to the room with the printer or scanner, plugging in, printing or scanning and then moving on. <\/p>\n<p>With CUPS you can setup the PI to be a print server. You navigate to a web page, add the printer that it detects and then you can print or scan documents, without having to move the computer or printer. During my test I connected to the printer, and scanned documents via the document feeder. With little annoyance I achieved my goal and moved on. <\/p>\n<p>Although everything worked in browser as I expected to setup the printer, and then connect with a mac and a windows machine I am not sure whether I was able to print because the wifi was already setup or because CUPS installed the printer\/scanner as I had requested. Rationally my experiment was a success but I should duplicate it, to be certain.<\/p>\n<p>With this specific printer my old work flow was that I would get the documents to scan, and a USB key, scan the documents to the key, transfer the documents from the key to a laptop, rename them, and then use them. Now I get the post, scan the documents within five minutes and then the documents are just for archive, in physical form, and accessible in digital form.<\/p>\n<p>## And Finally<\/p>\n<p>Although printing and scanning are a chore, because you need to get the scanner and laptops to recognise each other, if you setup CUPS then they&#8217;re ready, within seconds, for you to use, with little effort or thought. It simplifies document scanning and more.<\/p>\n<p>Although setting up a printer with CUPS may appear dull and boring it is very useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Yesterday I decided to play with the Common Unix Printing system (CUPS). I followed [this tutorial](https:\/\/pimylifeup.com\/raspberry-pi-print-server\/) and within a reasonable amount of time I had set up a pi 3 to serve as a print server for an old printer. Sometimes you use printers and scanners by plugging them in to the laptop you&#8217;re currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[6251,6252,6254,6175,6253],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-related","tag-cups","tag-print-server","tag-printing","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-scanning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11194,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions\/11194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}