What is the best way to make a network printer out of a non-network printer?

Question

System administration

There is a Xerox 3020, it seems to have built-in Wi-Fi and the ability to work as a network "sparkle", but it works just like a network rather buggy. And it is necessary network. As far as I know, you can connect the printer via usb to some nix system and make it network. There are several options - 1) use a stupid print server with usb 2) buy a TP-LINK TL-MR3020, flash it in OpenWRT and configure it 3) connect it to Raspberry and do the same trick. That is, as if the theory is understandable, but it had nothing to do directly with the implementation. Which option is the most reliable and bug-free? I ask those who really solved a similar problem to respond, because I already know the theory. The option "buy a network printer" is not an option, you need to use the printer that is available.

Answer 1

"Works buggy" is, of course, an exhaustive description. Are you generally sure that the problem is in the printer, and not, for example, in the network settings or clients?
The correct strategy in this case, if you want everything to work, and not to mess around with collective farm solutions indefinitely, is to buy devices that are originally designed for this. Because if it doesn't work again, you can return them and buy something else instead (or still wonder if there is a problem with something else). And if you start collective farming something, you will not have such an opportunity, you will not return the Raspberry Pi to the store with the motivation "it does not plow like a print server."

Answer 2

Try to set it up as is.
https://4-the-masses.livejournal.com/129400.html
If it's really problematic, there is no difference in stability between the options. It depends on the stability of the hardware and settings.

Answer 3

We once solved such a problem by purchasing a print server for each such printer. We also had printers with LPT, we took the appropriate print servers, stupidly stuck them into LPT - it came out a little outlandish, but it worked :)