I will show you how to setup the remarkable in a way that you can use it like a printer for your Mac.

First of all, you have to enable the USB mode on the remarkable device. You’ll find the option in the settings.

Now start the Automator App installed on every Mac. Create a new workflow and choose to create a new Print plugin.

Next in the list of possible actions, search for “Run Shell script” and drag’n’drop it in your new workflow. Set it up as follows:

using the following script

for f in "$@" do tempname=`basename $0` TMPPS_PREFIX=$(mktemp "XXXXXX") TMPPS=$(mktemp "${TMPPS_PREFIX}.pdf") rm ${TMPPS_PREFIX} cp "${f}" $TMPPS curl -vvv -H "Origin: http://10.11.99.1" -H 'Referer: http://10.11.99.1/' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36' -F "file=@${TMPPS};filename=\"${f}\";type=application/pdf" http://10.11.99.1/upload rm $TMPPS done

The script creates a termporary copy of the printed PDF you want on your device and then pushes it to the small webserver running on your remarkable before deleting the temporary file. On a sidenote, if you want a .json with all the documents on your device, you can query http://10.11.99.1/documents. You can now save the workflow under a descriptive name, I chose “Print to Remarkable via USB”.

Now connect the remarkable to your mac via USB, open a document you want on your reader and open the print dialoge. Under “PDF” you will find your new workflow:

Your document will show up on your device almost instantly. Have fun with it!