AirPrint with Cups

https://connor.zip/posts/2023-06-08-airprint-with-cups

by cptaffe • 3 years ago

43 25 3 years ago

cptaffe5• 3 years ago

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

triyambakam• 3 years ago

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.

kotaKat• 3 years ago

I 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.)

Tepix• 3 years ago

Neat. 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?

BugsJustFindMe5• 3 years ago

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.

vuln• 3 years ago

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

BugsJustFindMe5• 3 years ago

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

cptaffe5• 3 years ago

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

e28eta3• 3 years ago

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.

running101• 3 years ago

Can you share the config?

cramjabsyn3• 3 years ago

You can run all this in a container, in fact there are already pre-built containers to do it

BugsJustFindMe5• 3 years ago

I don't find solutions that amount to "just configure a computer on every network you encounter as a print server regardless of whether you own the network" to be very interesting. Using a container doesn't solve the problem unless that container is running on my phone.

bouke• 3 years ago

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.

willswire• 3 years ago

Here’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-...

DANmode• 3 years ago

Is HN auto-formatting CUPS, in the title?

Definitely made it ambiguous for me, at first glance.

cptaffe5• 3 years ago

Yes, no drinkware was harmed in the creation of this blog post

mdaniel• 3 years ago

Interesting: 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

cramjabsyn3• 3 years ago

https://github.com/SickHub/docker-cups-airprint

AirPrint with Cups

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