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This is for ‘Chrome OS’. Is this also being introduced for Android devices? As AirPrint is a reasonable protocol I tried looking for how to print to it from no

This is for ‘Chrome OS’. Is this also being introduced for Android devices? As AirPrint is a reasonable protocol I tried looking for how to print to it from non Apple operating systems but all I found was ways to make Linux servers present their printers as AirPrint printers. Great but how to print to them from Linux/Android/Windows?

gumby 6y ago
It's not that complicated. The protocol is defined here https://tools.ietf.org/html/std92 https://tools.ietf.org/html/std92 but if you don't feel like doing the plumbing yourself, just use CUPS.
izacus 6y ago
I think Android has it in "Default print service", although there's certanly printers that will be left behind. E.g. my Cloud Print compatible Oki doesn't have a way forward for Android anymore.
- tssva 6y ago
  Have you tried the Oki print app?
  - izacus 6y ago
    Yeah, it's pretty awful and it doesn't register as a print service (so you can't print from other apps).
    - tssva 6y ago
      It appears they also have the "OKI Print Plugin" in the play store which appears to be a print service.
      - izacus 6y ago
        Oh this is new, great! Thanks :)
the_pwner224 6y ago
It works great under Linux. I got a new Brother printer recently and in CUPS using the autodetected IPP printer actually gave better results than trying to install the Brother drivers (stuff like double sided printing, margins, DPI options all worked out of the box on IPP and not so well with the drivers).