About Raspberry Pi Cloud Printer

Raspberry Pi Cloud Printer is a cloud print platform based on web.py which runs on Raspberry Pi, a tiny linux computer(based on CloudPrint). In addition, any device can submit print job to RPCP.

Hardware

• A Raspberry Pi 3
• A printer
• A network wire or network card
• Power supply for Pi and printer

Prerequisites

• Installed CUPS
• Installed driver for printer
• Installed python3
• Configured network card
• Downloaded this git repository

Procedure

1. Users visit printerip:8080/upload
2. After receiving the file, the lcd will display the name of the file and current printjob amount.
3. Raspberry will save the file and use Linux printer command, lp, to print the file.

4. Server will automatically delete the uploaded file.

   apt-get install cups
   apt-get install hplip (For HP printer)
   git clone https://github.com/William-An/RaspCloudPrint.git
   OR
   wget https://github.com/William-An/RaspCloudPrint/archive/master.zip
   // For HP: some HP printers demand HP-Plugin, you can download from http://hplip.sourceforge.net/plugin.conf
   // For adding printers: you need to modify /etc/cups/cupsd.conf so that you can access the control menu through http

How to run

cd <git repo dir> && sudo python3 server.py 80

Procedure

1. User will visit printerip/upload to print file
2. Server will save the file it gets and use lp to print this file
3. The file will be delete and user will be redirected to index
4. If error happens, user will be redirected to error page and can access printerip/log for view or download print log

Future

1. Add support for more format; currently(v1.0), RPCP only support pdf
2. Add more options when printing; allow users to configure their printing; currently(v1.0), RPCP can only print by default
3. Add an 1602A LCD screen to show current print job attributes

Error

If there are bugs, please post them on issues section or contact through my email: [ChinaAisa@live.com](mailto:ChinaAisa@live.com)

Acknowledge

Flaticon -> Tab icon web.py -> Server framework html5up -> HTML Template

Contact

E-Mail: [ChinaAisa@live.com](mailto:ChinaAisa@live.com) Github: William-An TheXYZLab: Official Site | Github Organization

2017/05/30 v1.0