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bommerts
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Remote printing options - connected to another PC

Hello all,

I've had my MK3 for about a month now and love it so far!

I'm trying to set it up so I can print right from slic3r instead of having to do the SD card swap.

I have the printer connected to USB on another PC (which happens to be my media center PC - might as well make dual use of it!)

I know there are guides out there, but they all seem to be geared towards using a R-PI.
Does anyone else have a setup like this? Can you offer any suggestions on the best way to do this?

Thanks!
Joe

Posted : 08/04/2018 10:05 pm
Erik
 Erik
(@erik-3)
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Re: Remote printing options - connected to another PC

I have my connected PC running Octoprint instead of using a Raspberry Pi. It works just fine. There are step-by-step instructions on the Octoprint website for installing on a Windows or Linux machine.

It works just fine, but I still send all of my files to the SD card (which is very slow) before printing the file from the SD card.

Posted : 08/04/2018 11:32 pm
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