I think it would be nice if my guests could easily print and scan when they are visiting.

Printing should be relatively easy nowadays with the printer on the same network. Scanning is another story. I found this nice project which works very nicely.

However, I would love to have the same but for printing, that way I would not have to do device specific troubleshooting/helping when trying to print something from guests’ devices.

There is this project, which has a screenshot of what seems to be exactly what I’m looking for, but the issues are unanswered, there is no release, the building of the project is lacking.

Dockerfiles are incomplete, they are lacking copy yarn.lock and api lacks db initialization. The ports seem to be hardcoded. And once built, it doesn’t work or at least I didn’t manage yet. I got the frontend finally up but can’t login. My knowledge is very limited so I’m checking with you if there is anything similar in the landscape or anyone willing to help on that project. Unfortunately I am locked out of github.

CUPS didn’t work for me as I can’t see an upload option on the web UI.

  • ShimitarAEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I use scanservejs since at least one year and can confirm it’s the best.

    As for printing, I went down the same rabbit hole and had zero luck. Seems such a stupid thing yet nobody created such a service, except for a couple of commercial ones.

    So yeah, if you find something …

    By the way, probably creating a simple web interface that accepts uploads and pipe to lpr is pretty easy to do, but I didn’t got around to do it. Printing feels… Outdated. And printing from computer or android is so easy anyway that probably useless.