AirPrint and Bonjour

Question

Do I have to use an Apple AirPrint capable printer to use AirPrint in my iPad app?

Can't I just set up a shared Bonjour print service on a Mac and connect to that?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 04 '16 at 22:48

Yes, you can share Mac-printers and access them from your iOS devices.

Under OS X 10.10 you need to republish a modified Bonjour announcement. Add ,_universal as service sub-type and image/urf to the pdl values:

Example

dns-sd                   \
 -R "AirPrinter"         \
 _ipp._tcp,_universal    \
 .                       \
 631                     \
    rp=printers/ColorJet \
    pdl=application/pdf,image/urf \
    URF=none

There's a description in German available in c't 21/2015.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '11 at 02:00

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You have to use AirPrint printers. You may have luck with Printopia, but I’ve not tried it.

answered Sep 15 '11 at 02:00

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 26 '11 at 21:17

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Setup an airprint service on a ubuntu box in your network that has any printer attached to it. See here:

http://hartlessbydesign.com/blog/view/197-airprint-with-ubuntu-1010

edited Dec 26 '11 at 21:17

answered Dec 26 '11 at 21:09

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