Printing from a PDA in the car

Question

Do it yourself

There is: an EPSON LX-300+ dot matrix printer, a PDA with WM6, a 300 W car inverter.
It is necessary: ​​to organize printing in the machine. There is also a D-link DPR-1040 print server, to which it was planned to organize printing via a wireless network. Everything seems to be fine, only this servet draws 570 watts of power O_o. That's fucked up. What can you think of less energy-intensive?

Answer 1

Yes, anything with Linux on board. There, the guys are making a minicomputer the size of an SD card with WiFi on board, with a processor like that of the same print server (as well as a whole crowd of routers). And even with OpenWRT on board. There it is easy to put both CUPS and some kind of pl9nd. Here is the print server. True, that's how you are going to print from a PDA on WM6 to a network printer - I have little idea. I don't remember anything like that, to be honest...
// printing in general as such.
Although, in principle, the issue is very solvable, and the level of labor costs depends on the context.