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AirPrint is, when compared to what came before it, mind-numbingly simple. Printer announces itself with Bonjour, provides basic configuration (like choice of pa
by sjwright 10y ago
AirPrint is, when compared to what came before it, mind-numbingly simple. Printer announces itself with Bonjour, provides basic configuration (like choice of paper tray) with IPP, then accepts documents in PDF format. The end.
Put simply, it upends the retarded mess of printer drivers and replaces it with something that does the job perfectly well 99 percent of the time. All it requires is for the printer to have sufficient MIPS to raster PDF files.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoIsn't it a subset of PDF? I thought the rasterisation happens on the host.
- scarface74 10y agoIt does happen on the host (I think). That reminds me of another advantage of hosting a network printer on the Mac. Even if the printer does require a dedicated print driver, to the rest of the network - including Windows computers -it's seen as a generic PostScript printer and the Mac takes care of the translation.
- vetinari 10y agoRaspberry Pi with debian and cups does the same job. Macs use cups too, they just use different stack for the pdf rasterization step. I'm using it to network-share an older Samsung printer that has only USB port.