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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 29, 2013 03:52PM |
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On Windows (certain versions) if you *add* another serial port into the mix, it will re-number all of them. If you plug your printer into a new port it often will re-number it. It's more the drivers than the OS, so different mixes of devices will do different things.
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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 30, 2013 07:59PM |
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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 30, 2013 08:23PM |
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Wouldn't all five rasberries need their own SD card though
Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 31, 2013 11:13AM |
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Wouldn't all five rasberries need their own SD card though
I've already answered that question, you don't have to touch the cards, you could easily upload the files over wlan.
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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 31, 2013 11:37AM |
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The rasberries do not have wireless connectivity though.
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The rasberries do not have wireless connectivity though.
Yes, and the raspberrys dont have USB and there are no wireless USB adaptors...
oh dear, did you ever look on their site?
http://octoprint.org/
You don't have to use it and I'm not the octoprint support. It was only an advice.
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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 31, 2013 11:57AM |
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The rasberries do not have wireless connectivity though.
Yes, and the raspberrys dont have USB and there are no wireless USB adaptors...
oh dear, did you ever look on their site?
http://octoprint.org/
You don't have to use it and I'm not the octoprint support. It was only an advice.
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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer December 31, 2013 12:07PM |
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to not buy a wireless adapter, and just plug your computer into each Rasberry, upload your print file to it, unplug and move on to the next printer/rasberry?
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Would something like this^ work
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Re: Printing from Multiple printers on the same Computer January 02, 2014 07:11PM |
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A lot of this depends on things like what OS you are running. A simple generic approach:
1) Download Pronterface source code from Git [github.com]
2) Set up your compiler with the listed dependancies (as needed)
3) Do a test compile and make sure the result works
4) Copy the source tree to directories pronterface1.... pronterface5
5) Rename the output file in each tree according to the tree name
6) Rename the settings file in the source code to a unique name for each instance
7) Compile and save each as a separate app
8) Bring each one up and configure it for it's own com port
9) Shut each down and bring them back up to be sure the settings files are all unique
That (possibly with some minor tweaks) should do what you want to do. The main risk is an OS that decides to re-number all of your USB serial ports at random. With one printer / one port that's not so crazy. With 5 of them it could be a hassle.
Simple answer - this is why people use LCD's and SD cards.
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