CLUSTER PRINTERS-JOBS-LOCAL · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-06-11
Driverless network printing tools
These products help users print from various devices to network printers, using techniques like PostScript emulation, HTTP routing, or mDNS discovery to simplify setup. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only one dated entry prior to the index start. Traction is minimal across all members, each showing 0 stars, so no single product leads on activity.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 2 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01printman1★13 dayslivehobbyDesktop tool that turns a Windows computer with an old USB printer into a local Wi-Fi print server so documents can be sent from a phone browser.
- 02uprake-print-agent0★23 days—Windows print agent that retrieves queued printing jobs from a cloud service and sends them to thermal printers via USB or network.
- 03chalona-print0★1 moliveindieRemote printing service that accepts print jobs over HTTP and routes them through lightweight agents to local printers without port forwarding or VPN.
- 04escpos-printer-bridge0★26 days—hand-codedhobbyNetwork print server that shares a USB, Bluetooth, or built-in receipt printer with POS apps and PCs over the LAN.
- 05print-bridge-open0★2 mo—Utility that bridges print jobs from apps or devices to local or network printers.
- 06ps-printer-app0★unknownliveopen sourcePrinter application that provides PostScript printer driver support, emulating a network printer for automatic discovery and driverless setup.
- 07CUPS Printing0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that enables printing from any app to network printers discovered via mDNS.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.