Hi!

I have setup ScanServJS which is an awesome web page that access your scanner and let you scan and download the scanned pages from your self hosted web server. I have the scanner configured via sane locally on the server and now I can scan via web from whatever device (phone, laptop, tablet, whatever) with the same consistent web interface for everyone. No need to configure drivers anywhere else.

I want to do the same with printing. On my server, the printer is already configured using CUPS, and I can print from Linux laptops via shared cups printer. But that require a setup anyway, and while I could make it work for phones and tablets, I want to avoid that

I would like to setup a nice web page, like for the scanner, where the users no matter the device they use, can upload files and print them. Without installing nor configuring anything on their devices.

Is there anything that I can self-host to this end?

  • Moonrise2473English
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    3 months ago

    I made something crude with python and flask, but it’s only to print address labels, always the same settings (paper size and so on)

    So i just put a textbox, press the button and it prints there.

    When printing generic stuff, you would need to set paper type, paper size, color or BW, if have both sides printed, if printing from a specific tray, then some kind of user authentication (i am lazy and i didn’t care about privacy so i used cloudflare access), so the complexity becomes much bigger.

    Before making my crude script I searched long time for a free or cheap solution, but I didn’t find. If you find, let me know

    • ShimitarOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yes, this is what I am afraid of… There is nothing out there for this task.

      Hope to find something or maybe try to create something using lpr on the background… But this is the las hope as I have little time.