Our printer at work isn’t connected to the network and there’s no way to know if the print is done remotely. Also, I wanted to be able to check on the print remotely to know whether it had gone bad and stop the print.

Since one of our servers is sitting in the same room, I installed a USB webcam inside the printer’s enclosuse, and a 20x USB spotter camera on the opposite wall looking at the printer’s LCD screen, and setup Motion on the server to stream both cameras.

This is what is looks like when I point my browser to the server. I love it!