Apple Air-Print on Cups

[Arthur Dent]

On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:36 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a Brother HL-2170W printer which works very well, but which is
> not of course an Apple Air-print printer. Most of my family seem to have
> Apple devices. I read somewhere that it is possible to make any printer
> Air-Print compatible by modifying the Cups settings. This seemed like
> such a good idea I would have a go. A have a F17 (I know, I know - but I
> am going to try to upgrade when I have some time over the Easter
> holidays...) machine which is always on an runs cups.
> 
> I found this article
> http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9633.0 which has some
> information but I got stuck at the bit about avahi.
> 
> I then had a look at this article
> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=60740 upon which the
> first one is based. The updated page now says that this method is
> deprecated because "Discovery of a Mint/Ubuntu attached printer from an
> iPad pretty much works out of the box as long as you have shared the
> printer, instructed the CUPS server to publish that printer, and have
> made sure that the avahi-daemon is running."
> 
> I am a bit lost. Has anyone got this working on a Fedora machine? If so
> can you point me to a how-to?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

Gentle Bump...
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