If you have an old printer at home that does not have a network interface, but has a USB port, you can connect it to your raspberry pi. Since your pi is reachable in your private network ( see my previous post ), you can make it a print server for your printer and make it available on your LAN. Using Google Cloud Print , you can even take a step further and make your printer reachable over the internet. This good article explains how to set up the print server on your pi. I will repeat the steps here for the record and go on to the Google Cloud Print part. For the print server on the pi, you need CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) . But before that, to make your pi visible to your Windows machines, you need samba : > sudo apt-get install samba > sudo apt-get install cups These may take a few minutes to install. Just follow the instructions that may come on the screen and you'll be fine. After installing CUPS, you need to add your current user (by default: pi)
In this post I'm going to go through steps I took to get my quite old raspberry pi (Model B Rev. 2) up and running again for some future projects. We will install NOOBS, change hostname, setup the wifi, and finally we setup static IP addresses on the pi to make it easily available on our private network. Installation Installation is very easy if you follow the original raspberry pi instructions . You just download NOOBS, format your SD card with SD Formatter , and copy NOOBS files to your SD card. And then you boot your raspberri pi, and follow the instructions on the screen. A couple of tools that will come handy after the installation are: Win32 Disk Imager to get backups of your SD card, after installing and configuration of different stuff. So spare some hard disk space on your computer for the backups. A good SSH client. I use mobaXterm . There are of course plenty of them out there. After NOOBS installation just run two below commands. It's good