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  • n25an
    Service Manager

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    • Jul 2008
    • 1030
    #1

    how to share a printer over the internet

    I have a customer who wants to log into his work printer from home and print a document. Is there anyway to do that without using a commercial solution?
    Can IPP Printing take care of that?
    How do you handle the issue of domain name resolution?
    He doesn't want to print over a large network...
    He wants to remotely log in and print or connect to the printer from an ip address that is a web address and print...
    Is this possible?
    Sad To Say I Don't Have a Life
    I do this stuff on the weekends too
    Tags: accessing, customer, ect, email address, internet printing, issue, name resolution, print over the internet, printer, printing, publicity, share printer, solution, vpn, web, work
    • mrwho
      Major Asshole!

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      2,500+ Posts
      • Apr 2009
      • 4299
      #2
      IPP printing will work, just make sure you set it up properly so he doesn't receive unwanted printjobs.
      ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
      Mascan42

      'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
      Ibid

      I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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        • BlueBlazer
          Technician
          • Jan 2010
          • 25
          #3
          Maybe suggest a VPN? I suspect he'll want to do more with his network in the future.

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            • Jules Winfield
              Senior Tech

              500+ Posts
              • Jul 2009
              • 821
              #4
              Some machines can be configured to print via email. You configure the device with the POP3 settings, create a POP3 user acount for the printer to use and send your print jobs to that address as an email attachment (usually this will only work with PDF attachments, but some printers can handle Word documents, JPEGs, etc...).
              But I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard... to be the Shepherd.

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                • Stirton.M
                  All things Konica Minolta

                  1,000+ Posts
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 1804
                  #5
                  Most Konica Minolta hardware is capable of accessing an email address and printing the contents. It is extremely rare that anyone would use this, but it is available.
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                    • n25an
                      Service Manager

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                      • Jul 2008
                      • 1030
                      #6
                      I am going to check out all options... thanks again...
                      Sad To Say I Don't Have a Life
                      I do this stuff on the weekends too

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                        • johnhamm008
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                          how to share a printer over the internet

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                            • mrwho
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                              #8
                              Originally posted by johnhamm008
                              This topic about how to share a printer over the internet is of great help to the staffs in our timeshare exit solutions, Inc. office.
                              Nice one! You almost fooled me into believing this wasn't just a shameless publicity post.

                              Bad boy! Bad! Bad boy! Sit! Staaaaay!
                              ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
                              Mascan42

                              'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
                              Ibid

                              I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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                                • RyanPacific
                                  Linux Ninja

                                  50+ Posts
                                  • Feb 2008
                                  • 97
                                  #9
                                  All these ideas I have tried and have worked well and there is only one other method that I could think of. You could set the printer up for LPD and forward port 515 from your router (assuming you have a static IP or DDNS) and simply set the PC up to print to the external address of his work network. I set this up at my house after reading this post and started printing a bunch of pictures for my wife on our HP 2550n while she was at home and I was at work. She called me and thought the printer was malfunctioning.
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