Print from pi

Printing from a RaspberryPi to a line printer (dot matrix, receipt printer) can be done quite simply, by simply writing the text to printer using:

echo "hello printer" > /dev/usb/lp0

Where:

• /dev/usb/lp0 is the location of the printer
• > is a write to command

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Sara wants to expand this mechanism, to have ePub's hyperlinks to make the printer print the words under the hyperlink.

In order to do so, a possible plan:

• have words in epub under hyperlink pointing towards a server-side script
  • ? how can the hyperlinked word be added to href from the hyperlink. Eg. <a href="http://address.to.server/WORD">WORD</a>
• the server side receives the words and writes it to the Pi

How does server writes to the Pi ???

• a reverse ssh tunnel that allows the server to login Pi
• server runs print command over ssh. eg. ssh user1@server1 'df -H' ssh user1@server1 'echo "hello printer" > /dev/usb/lp0'