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SergeoLacruz / inventree-zebra-plugin

Zebra Label Printer Plugin for Inventree
MIT License
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USB connection need to be connected to the host machine where inventree was installed ? #2

Closed Tomaaso closed 1 year ago

Tomaaso commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I'm regarding to purchase a label printer to work with inventree. But i'm questionning for a USB connection, if we need to connect the printer on the host machine where inventree is instaled ? Or we can connect the printer in USB on a client machine ?

Regards.

Thomas.

SergeoLacruz commented 1 year ago

Hi, A USB device is usually a local device and needs to be connected to the machine where Inventree runs. If you need to place the printer elsewhere think about a printer with an Ethernet interface. The driver supports both. If you already have a USB printer or want to save cost you can connect a USB printer on another computer and start a service there that opens an Ethernet port and sends the received data to the USB port. A Raspberry is just fine, even an old one. See the file server.py for a very simple example that I use during testing for exactly that purpose.

MIchael

Tomaaso commented 1 year ago

Thank you for your quick and clear response!