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Raspberry Pi AirPrint Server with HP Printer
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I have an old HP Officejet 2620 printer that works perfectly. Unfortunately Apple and HP do not support this printer in Big Sur onwards.

Instead of throwing away a perfectly working printer, I re-purposed one of my old Raspberry Pi 2 units and plugged the printer to it using the USB cable. Below are the steps I ended up following to convert the setup into an Air Print server.

  1. Follow instructions from https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-airprint/ to set up your Raspberry Pi.

  2. Before adding your HP Printer using the ttps://192.168.0.40:631 web UI, install HP Cups Drivers as below;

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt install hplip system-config-printer

  3. Pick the correct HP Cups driver for your printer while adding it, or modify later and change the driver.

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