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[boardworks]

Hi everyone – long time reader, first time poster. I've been playing with my Netduino Pro for a while now and loving every minute (have been tinkering with Arduino for the better part of a year, and have long wanted to use C#). One thing I have been looking for is how to print to my Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)-enabled HP InkJet printer via ethernet on my Netduino Pro. Have any of you seen sample drivers or other code examples on how best to achieve this? Many thanks in advance for your help!

[Coding Smackdown]

About a year back I wrote some basic code to print on network receipt printers. The biggest issue I had was all of the example code was too big for the Netduino. I end up sending basic text and ASCII commands to the printer, but never got what I was looking for. Now With .Net 4.2 you might have enough memory to do it. Its double almost since last time i tried. Good luck!

[Stefan]

It's an interesting project, for sure! You could use sockets to communicate with the printer. But I wonder if there's enough memory in the Netduino Plus to handle the protocol. Maybe in a very basic version.

[JerseyTechGuy]

I agree with everyone above. I've used the Plus via Ethernet to print to a serial receipt printer, but again this is simple Text and ASCII commands much like Coding Smackdown said. I've written a lot of printer code for the printers used in the Photo Booths I designed back in the 90's and for client projects over the last few years. My fear is the same that is simply would be too large a code base. Plus, it would simply be 50% cheaper to buy an Ethernet to (USB / SERIAL / PARALLEL) print adapter.