AirPrint with Cups

#1

Post by cptaffe » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 1:44 AM UTC

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#2

Post by cptaffe » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 1:44 AM UTC

I started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post

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Post by triyambakam » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 1:49 AM UTC

cptaffe wrote: post #2

I started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post

I love it! I have my printer hooked up to my network with an Raspberry Pi and would be glad to make it easier to print from the iPad.

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#4

Post by BugsJustFindMe » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 2:57 AM UTC

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

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#5

Post by vuln » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 3:28 AM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #4

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

… and most people probably wouldn’t be attempting to print from a 20 year old printer.

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 3:33 AM UTC

vuln wrote: post #5

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #4

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

… and most people probably wouldn’t be attempting to print from a 20 year old printer.

Eh, laser printers last basically forever. The advent of built-in network cards was the last meaningful technological advancement.

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Post by cptaffe » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 5:52 AM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #4

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

I don’t think such a method exists. Modern printers do usually support driverless printing out of the box, but for older printers that still work well, there was no IPP Everywhere or AirPrint standard when they were manufactured, and there are no new firmware updates. Using another system to translate from these protocols and modern formats like PDF is required

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Post by bouke » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 6:04 AM UTC

I’ve been wanting to set this up for a long time for my Dell Color Laser 1320n, however I can’t seem to get printing working from RPi ARM Linux as the drivers only support x86.

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Post by e28eta » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 6:05 AM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #4

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

I had a IPP capable printer that wasn’t showing up for AirPrint, and was able to solve that with a (relatively) simple static mDNS entry in my DNSMasq config, which I already had running on our router.

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Post by running101 » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 10:04 AM UTC

e28eta wrote: post #9

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #4

I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.

I had a IPP capable printer that wasn’t showing up for AirPrint, and was able to solve that with a (relatively) simple static mDNS entry in my DNSMasq config, which I already had running on our router.

Can you share the config?