I think it would be nice if my guests could easily print and scan when they are visiting.
Printing should be relatively easy nowadays with the printer on the same network. Scanning is another story. I found this nice project which works very nicely.
However, I would love to have the same but for printing, that way I would not have to do device specific troubleshooting/helping when trying to print something from guests’ devices.
There is this project, which has a screenshot of what seems to be exactly what I’m looking for, but the issues are unanswered, there is no release, the building of the project is lacking.
Dockerfiles are incomplete, they are lacking copy yarn.lock and api lacks db initialization. The ports seem to be hardcoded. And once built, it doesn’t work or at least I didn’t manage yet. I got the frontend finally up but can’t login. My knowledge is very limited so I’m checking with you if there is anything similar in the landscape or anyone willing to help on that project. Unfortunately I am locked out of github.
CUPS didn’t work for me as I can’t see an upload option on the web UI.
edit: So I spent time on tweaking the akronae repo, and after a few corrections, adding CUPS and improvements, I managed to get something functional. If I have more time I might publish it. It’s fully vibe coded though 'cause I couldn’t be arsed learning TypeScript and shit, and the original repo has plenty of outdated dependencies which, same, I won’t update because I don’t have the skills.
CUPS is really intended as the backend. Whatever software you run will talk to CUPS.
I’ve never used it, but Savapage appears to be such a frontend.
EDIT: It may be more elaborate than what you want. It looks like this thing is capable of being set up to run a commercial printing service. It can probably also do what you want, but it’s going to have a lot of functionality that you wouldn’t use if you’re just running an unauthenticated, anyone-can-use-it system.
I’ve tried it. The UI is quite convoluted. With a fair bit of effort it does the job though, but it’s far behind SANE in usability.