Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade 2. In my setup, even with almost 3 walls between my Pi and WiFi router, the signal strength is pretty good. In my opinion, this makes it easier to make changes to my network setup without remembering to reconfigure the Pi. I prefer to keep the Raspberry Pi’s network configuration set to DHCP and assign a static lease on the router. Having a wired/wireless network connection with a static IP address will make your life easy - checkout this guide.If you just burnt your OS image to the card : Setup WiFi & SSH Without a Monitor.If you have a keyboard/mouse/monitor connected : Use Raspi-Config to connect to WiFi.Like with everything on the Pi there are multiple ways to connect the Pi to your network (using WiFi) Connecting Raspberry Pi (over WiFi) to your Network Installing CUPS is rather straight forward on Rasbian/RPi OS. If you are new to Raspberry Pi, this guide can help you get started with a headless Raspberry Pi Setup)Īll we need to make this setup to work is CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) which is the thing that makes Linux computers spit out paper. (I am assuming you know your way around SSH and are running Raspberry Pi OS/Raspbian.

Buy a new WiFi Printer ? Because even after being a printer from mid 2000s, trusty LaserJet 1020 is fast, virtually maintenance free and its “compatible” toner cartridges sell for as low as ₹400 (~ US$ 5).

My Raspberry Pi is already Pi-Hole and is a lot more energy efficient

yada yada ? Because it still needs a computer to be booted up and running for when someone wants a print out. This is NOT required and I would rather suggest against it (see below) Quick Note : A lot of guides suggest you need to setup SAMBA to share printer on Windows.

Install/Setup CUPS support on Android and Windows Clients.

Use CUPS to start sharing the printer using IPP - Internet Printing Protocol.

I guess thats the point of this guide 😛)

Connect the Raspberry Pi to your network (I am using WiFi.

Hook up the printer to a Raspberry Pi ( Literally any Pi works here, I am using a “Headless” Raspberry Pi 3B because I have it handy).

Never be asked to print anything ever again :).

Make it easy (and reliable) enough for my ( not so tech-savvy) parents to print from their phones.Connect my old but trusty HP LaserJet 1020 to the home WiFi network (Using a Raspberry Pi).And like the weeks before I would keep forgetting to do so until one day I get another reminder saying that its been almost a month since the last reminder. Every few weeks my dad would remind me that I need to print a physical piece of paper for “keeping records”.

Test print hp laserjet 1020