Instal printer for mobile vet

Submitted by AVC on Fri, 01/04/2016 - 23:03

General User's Discussion

Hi Everyone

I joined OpenVPMS family almost a year ago and recently changed my based server to cloud server for ease of use for mobile business, I used an IT technician based in Sydney to install and upload my system on cloud, everything works perfectly except default printer.

We can't upload any default printer to our system and any time want to print a certificate or drug label we must get a preview and use laptop preview system to proceed with printing. Has anyone experienced the same problem? Is there any way to fix this?

kind regards

Ben

Vet On The Run mobile vet services

Re: Instal printer for mobile vet

Submitted by tanderson on Sun, 03/04/2016 - 10:29.

What platform are you running OpenVPMS under? What have you tried?

If its Linux, see http://www.howtogeek.com/215235/how-to-install-printer-drivers-on-linux/

You can also use Google Cloud Print: https://support.google.com/cloudprint/answer/1686197?hl=en

For Linux, see https://support.google.com/a/answer/2906017

Re: Instal printer for mobile vet

Submitted by ones4tech (not verified) on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 21:37.

as @tanderson suggested,

Google cloud print is easy to setup if you know simple Linux codes, got any issues let me know.

We have a client using it at present.

Re: Instal printer for mobile vet

Submitted by Skyntara (not verified) on Thu, 07/04/2016 - 21:28.

None of those links are applicable. Those Google software links allows the server to be a cloud print server - we require it to be a client for the local printers on the workstations.

We can successfully install a printer using IPP on a static IP with port forwarding to an ethernet printer. However the users will be remote on 3G connections so the IPs will not be static and the printers are USB. Dynamic DNS could be used but it adds another level of complexity.

I have attempted to install https://www.niftiestsoftware.com/cups-cloud-print/

This errors out at the stage of actually installing the printers. "1280, u’server-error-internal-error’"

I have since tracked down fix, and preliminary tests seems to be positive.