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Print from Android phone to network shared printer?
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:00 pm
Ok, playing around with W11 on my home network.
I have a cheap but still very functional Brother laserjet printer, NOT wifi on it's own.
I connected it to one of those cheap mini pc's, running W11 home.
After dicking around, I was able to enable sharing with credentials across the network (other W11 pc's at my house), and now I'm curious if I can do the same with our cellphones. I want to be able to connect to my local wifi network, pull up a file on my phone, and print it to that printer.
Using the printing app, I can find my HP inkjet (which is wifi), but that's costly (I only use it for color printing now, so not basic documents). I do see an option to select an IP address, but haven't set up a static IP yet for this cheapo PC, and would prefer not to if I can get away with it. And beyond that, I figure I still would need to enter the correct credentials to access it.
I've googled some, but there is mostly just connecting to wifi printers. Again, what I want to do is connect to a shared printer on the network, that isn't wifi on it's own. Thanks
I have a cheap but still very functional Brother laserjet printer, NOT wifi on it's own.
I connected it to one of those cheap mini pc's, running W11 home.
After dicking around, I was able to enable sharing with credentials across the network (other W11 pc's at my house), and now I'm curious if I can do the same with our cellphones. I want to be able to connect to my local wifi network, pull up a file on my phone, and print it to that printer.
Using the printing app, I can find my HP inkjet (which is wifi), but that's costly (I only use it for color printing now, so not basic documents). I do see an option to select an IP address, but haven't set up a static IP yet for this cheapo PC, and would prefer not to if I can get away with it. And beyond that, I figure I still would need to enter the correct credentials to access it.
I've googled some, but there is mostly just connecting to wifi printers. Again, what I want to do is connect to a shared printer on the network, that isn't wifi on it's own. Thanks
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Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:05 am to Scoob
Using an old Pixel 5a on my home network with an even older Dell C2660dn Laser printer, I opened a pdf file in firefox and was able to print it. It did show a popup that said that the document would go through several servers in order to be printed - don't know what that is about, but again, it did print properly. Hope this helps.
Posted on 1/12/25 at 11:15 am to Scoob
Attached printer via USB to a Raspberry Pi running as a CUPS server. Android can attach the CUPS server and print as long as they are on the same subnet (different subnet will work but takes a little more work for discovery)
Posted on 1/12/25 at 2:46 pm to Scoob
When you connect/print to a WiFi printer, you’re doing that via your local network. That printer is connected to the same router a wired printer is connected to. Is your printer WiFi-direct on its own private network?
Posted on 1/12/25 at 2:53 pm to Brisketeer
My printer in not wifi.
Brother laserjet. Usb connection to a mini pc, and shared on network
Brother laserjet. Usb connection to a mini pc, and shared on network
Posted on 1/12/25 at 5:34 pm to Scoob
Any possibility your router has print sharing builtin? Then could connect printer direct to router and make it accessible from router GUI. At least i know some netgear and asus models had that capability
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:16 pm to Scoob
Posted on 1/12/25 at 7:51 pm to TAMU-93
quote:That looks promising;
Try NetPrinter. It supports SMB.
Check here if your printer is supported.
I have a Brother HL-L2300D. Not wifi, just USB to a networked computer.
That database lists the printer... I'll try it. I wouldn't think it would list if it wouldn't work,
Posted on 1/12/25 at 8:17 pm to Scoob
so... I'm trying that out... I have to figure out what protocol W11 uses. I seem to remember they got away from SMB due to vulnerabilities.
Posted on 1/12/25 at 9:33 pm to Scoob
Your settings should look something like this.
Host is your PC's IP address.
Share name is your printer's share name.
I couldn't get it to work with my Microsoft Account credentials, so I had to create a local user account called printer.
I got as far as the print job showing up in my print queue, but my printer isn't supported so I got a print error.
Host is your PC's IP address.
Share name is your printer's share name.
I couldn't get it to work with my Microsoft Account credentials, so I had to create a local user account called printer.
I got as far as the print job showing up in my print queue, but my printer isn't supported so I got a print error.
This post was edited on 1/12/25 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:12 pm to TAMU-93
Can I set this up to read host name instead of ip address?
Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:31 pm to Scoob
Yes, if you're running a DNS to resolve the host name. It doesn't seem to support mDNS.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 5:40 am to Scoob
SMB v1 was disabled, but not v2, IIRC. I had to manually re-enable it to connect to a brand new smart speaker.
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