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AirPrint with Cups
- cptaffe 3y agoI started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post
- triyambakam 3y agoI 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.
- kotaKat 3y agoI had to have a HomeBridge server already and was running it from a Pi Zero W -- I just decided to bolt it onto the back of the printer and make it pull double-duty as the CUPS box. A little party trick -- depending on the printer, you might be able to get an "in line" power tap/Y splitter for the power cord to run the Pi and the printer off the same outlet. (My printer takes a normal C14, so I just split and slapped a USB brick on the other end.)
- cptaffe 3y agoThis is cool! Blurring the line between what is and isn't part of the printer itself
- Tepix 3y agoNeat. I am also using a Raspberry Pi to keep my (18 year old) Samsung CLP510N alive, however the Raspberry Pi also runs Pi-Hole (DNS Adblock). I'm curious if i can combine avahi (for air print) and pi-hole?
- BugsJustFindMe 3y agoI 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.
- vuln 3y ago… and most people probably wouldn’t be attempting to print from a 20 year old printer.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y agoEh, laser printers last basically forever. The advent of built-in network cards was the last meaningful technological advancement.
- cptaffe 3y agoI 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
- e28eta 3y agoI 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.
- running101 3y agoCan you share the config?
- e28eta 3y agoHere’s my write up from the time: https://www.djackson.org/printer-discovery-using-dns-sd/ https://www.djackson.org/printer-discovery-using-dns-sd/ The article says the formats need to include ‘image/urf’, which afaik wasn’t true in 2017, and there may be other salient differences these days. We subsequently moved to a newer printer w/built-in AirPrint.
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- bouke 3y agoI’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.
- willswire 3y agoHere’s a quick post I helped write which accomplishes this using a Raspberry Pi! https://www.balena.io/blog//wifi-enable-usb-printers-with-a-raspberry-pi-and-share-it-over-your-network// https://www.balena.io/blog//wifi-enable-usb-printers-with-a-...
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- DANmode 3y agoIs HN auto-formatting CUPS, in the title? Definitely made it ambiguous for me, at first glance.
- cptaffe 3y agoYes, no drinkware was harmed in the creation of this blog post
- mdaniel 3y agoInteresting: I knew about in-addr.arpa but didn't know they have a bunch of others, including the home.arpa as used it the post: https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa
- cramjabsyn 3y agohttps://github.com/SickHub/docker-cups-airprint https://github.com/SickHub/docker-cups-airprint