Is there a lightweight alternative to CUPS

[mhmediaonline]

Folks,

I used to print to a networked laser printer, Brother HL-L2340D when I had an ancient Mac Mini. I'm now migrating to a Raspberry Pi 2 and have managed to install CUPS which can detect the printer. I can't print to it though as it normally "fails to find the printer". Judging by other postings I think the Pi is running out memory and timing out.

Is there any real alternative to CUPS for Arch? I want to print the occasional letter/email, not run a multi-user print shop!

Thanks! Peter.

[grayman4hire]

Sorry, not totally understanding what you actually "migrated" or what your printing to and from where.

Why not print directly to your brother printer since it has built in wireless? Or are you saying you got a new printer now and it's not wireless anymore?

At any rate, I doubt it has anything to CUPS resources. I've ran CUPS on MIPS routers with way less memory and resources than a Pi. You can always create a swapfile if you think memory is your issue.

p910nd is the alternative to CUPS. Running p910nd on your Pi with a USB printer attached will turn your USB printer into a networked printer.

[mhmediaonline]

I migrated from an old Mac Mini PPC to the Pi - quite an interesting exercise.

Thanks for the heads-up about p910nd - I'll check it out.

[grayman4hire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mhmediaonline', 'I') migrated from an old Mac Mini PPC to the Pi - quite an interesting exercise.

Thanks for the heads-up about p910nd - I'll check it out.

[cpcnw]

@mhmediaonline - I am using a Banana Pi as a desktop with cups printing to a Kyocera FS-1030D. The printer has Ethernet however I ran out of ports on my Draytek. Fortunately it had a USB port that can be setup as an LPD Queue.

Whenever I need to print the odd doc or pdf I just pass 'cupsd' to a terminal then use 'lpd -P FS1030' for printing.

Works ok here

[ranjitha21]

At any rate, I doubt it has anything to CUPS resources. I've ran CUPS on MIPS routers with way less memory and resources than a Pi. You can always create a swapfile if you think memory is your issue.