CUPS support

[n1zzo]

Hi,
one thing could make this printer even more awesome: network printing!

What is the difficulty of creating a CUPS filter able to print through this cat thingy?

[rbaron]

That's an interesting idea @n1zzo! I have never worked with CUPS, but it seems doable - https://behind.pretix.eu/2018/01/20/cups-driver/. Feel free to take a stab at it!

[frankenstein91]

@n1zzo and @rbaron did you start on this?

[rbaron]

I have not @frankenstein91. Unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to work on this, but it seems like an interesting feature.

[frankenstein91]

Okay... I planning to buy one of the printers.
So maybe I will start on that

[n1zzo]

Nice @frankenstein91. I Will happily test what you'll come up with!
I noticed that DevTerm thermal printer was integrated in CUPS too as you can see from this hackaday article so maybe they have a CUPS filter which is ready to be used in thermal printers.

[frankenstein91]

I ordered my printer 🖨️ yesterday on AliExpress

[kaysersoze]

I'm going to try taking a stab at this in my free time as well (so it may be a while until I can get to it). I'll report back here with any progress that I make.

[AlexanderZhirov]

A gorgeous invention! Thank you for the program! It would be cool to stick it in CUPS! 😃