Hello all!

I'd like to print from my work to my home's printer. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and my printer is an HP Envy 4500. If you need more information, just let me know it. Thank you in advance!

You would need some type of remote access. VPN most likely to your house. Then it's as simple as picking the proper printer assuming your printer is also network based.

Another option would be to forward ports of your print server to your public ip, would require a static ip and being able to accept a potential of people randomly printing stuff in your house just because they have nothing better to do. Don't let the kids near the printer...

What do you think we can tell you, based on this??? You're wanting to print to your printer at home, over the Internet...setting up your printer at home, and your home PC/OS is the least of your hurdles. You have a firewall at your office to get past, then your home router has to be configured to allow the traffic through, you then have to NAT that traffic to your printer. Which only leaves setting up your work computer to access your home Internet address on a specific port, and getting your corporate IT folks to allow that traffic through.

So which part are you stuck on??
Indeed, but then the OP would have to setup a VPN server at their home...and they'd still have to open that port in their home firewall, NAT the traffic to it, and get their IT folks at their office to allow THAT traffic through their firewall.

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Basically you have not provided any information.

I assume you connecting from home to your work environment? Are you using a VPN?

Much better idea: print it to a PDF and copy that file to a thumb-drive which you then put into your pocket. When you get home, print the PDF.

So far what have you tried to accomplish your goal ? If you need any information let us know in advance. You are most welcome.

Indeed. Thank you for correcting that. Wasn't really thinking. Just posted about the dumbest thing I could think of. Best way vs worst way I guess.

I don't think there IS a 'best way' to do this...just degrees of bad.

In any case it would be tricky and hard. Whereas, "a PDF on a stick in your pocket" would be easy.

This having been said – some vendors such as Hewlett-Packard do offer a "shared printer" option, but the few people that I know who have actually tried it also reported that their printers suddenly started printing advertisements. Exactly like the "fax spam" of the old days.

I see red flags. I didn't see mentioned that the employer would be ok with this kind of configuration. I bet they wouldn't. Why wouldn't OP just be able to print to a local printer if printing was needed?

Thank you for the suggestions.

... or print to pdf at work and email pdf to be printed at home?

Hi,

if there is a host, pc.mynetwork.org, that has been configured to work with the printer on the home network that you can ssh to:
This works for me, but OP has said nothing about their network setup.

Evo2.

My 2 cents,

There may be a legitimate reason to want to do this, but most employers go to great lengths to make it technically impossible, backed up by corporate security policy.

Rick