Apple Air-Print on Cups

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On 19.02.2014 16:13, Arthur Dent wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 09:58 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> On 02/19/2014 09:41 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:
>>> I am a bit lost. Has anyone got this working on a Fedora machine?
>>
>>
>>
>> the HL-2170w should stand alone, Fedora shouls not have anything to do 
>> with the Apple Mac's printing.
>>
>> I have two Brother laser printers here, one is an HL-2170w and I have 
>> the only Fedora system in the house, all the other stuff is Apple and 
>> they all print to my printers, mainly the 2170 since it is the newest 
>> and produces the best copy for them. I don't know off the top of my head 
>> how to set up a printer on a Mac but the other family members are 
>> typical Mac users and have no trouble finding my printer. I did tell 
>> them the name, HL2170w and the address, in my case I gave it 102.158.1.5.
>>
>> Hope that helps a little,
>>
>> Bob
>>
> Thanks Bob...
> 
> No, the printer works just fine as a network printer. If I had a Mac I'm
> sure I would have no problem connecting to it and printing.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to use the printer as an "AirPrint" printer
> that can be used with an iPad or iPhone. You cannot install printer
> drivers on these devices and so they can only print to certain printers
> that are sold as AirPrint compatible devices. However, it seems that by
> tweaking Cups you can fool them into being able to print to any printer
> that is a shared printer on Cups. I just can quite work out how to do
> it...
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> 
> 

https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate


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