IR to USB receiver for printer emulation on PC monitor

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dingebre
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IR to USB receiver for printer emulation on PC monitor

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Has anyone looked into using an off the shelf IR to USB receiver to capture the printer output and display it on a computer monitor? I've hunted around several different HP forums but haven't seen this. Any thoughts about such a project? Have I just missed a discussion on this elsewhere?

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Re: IR to USB receiver for printer emulation on PC monitor

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dingebre wrote:
Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:03 am
Has anyone looked into using an off the shelf IR to USB receiver to capture the printer output and display it on a computer monitor? I've hunted around several different HP forums but haven't seen this. Any thoughts about such a project? Have I just missed a discussion on this elsewhere?

Thanks
Here's a DIY document:

http://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/red-eye/H ... rduino.pdf
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Re: IR to USB receiver for printer emulation on PC monitor

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toml_12953 wrote:
Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:18 pm
dingebre wrote:
Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:03 am
Has anyone looked into using an off the shelf IR to USB receiver to capture the printer output and display it on a computer monitor? I've hunted around several different HP forums but haven't seen this. Any thoughts about such a project? Have I just missed a discussion on this elsewhere?

Thanks
Here's a DIY document:

http://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/red-eye/H ... rduino.pdf
BRILLIANT! Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for. Time to dig out my programmer...
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Re: IR to USB receiver for printer emulation on PC monitor

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I've built one of those (Martin H's design) and it works nicely!

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Re: IR to USB receiver for printer emulation on PC monitor

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TomC wrote:
Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:30 pm
I've built one of those (Martin H's design) and it works nicely!

TomC
Thanks for the encouragement!
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