iDevice Printing - AirPrint

[rfonti]

Hi All,

 

 

Over the coming year, we are looking at the possibility of implementing AirPrint features across campus. I am curious to find out ways of making this possible in a WINDOWS BASED ENVIRONMENT.

 

One solution for our boarding house was to use Airport Express but this would involve the students switching wireless profiles to print.

 

Thoughts/comments are more than welcome.

 

Cheers,

Ryan

[GeeDee86]

Hi Ryan,

 

We have PaperCutMF for our print accounting, and it has the option to download a "profile"/apps to iOS devices to allow printing through the PaperCut software [http://www.papercut.com/products/ng/manual/ch-iosprinting-app-ios.html]

 

Hope that helps?

 

 

G

[SYNACK]

From another thread I was involved in on here the Airprint stuff for Windows servers implements almost zero security and relies on local accounts. If papercut has a different solution I'd look into that as it would be hard for it not to be better.

[chackett]

Papercut just adds authentication to AirPrint when using a CUPS print queue. On a Mac print server it also shares the printers giving the correct information via mDNS/Bonjore/zeroconf for it to appear on a iOS device.

 

I have set up for limited testing purposes (in preparation for the web app papercut has to support iPhone and iPod Touch) a number of printer queues on a Linux server. I then made them show up on iOS devices using avahi and some XML. Once everything is working I installed papercut as a secondary server on the Linux box. Make sure the URI for the devices now start with papercut: before the normal URI (forgot to do this first and was wondering why it was not working!). After doing a test print you need to make the guest user an unauthenticated user in the PaperCut web interface.

[chackett]

Oh, and don't forget to add some restrictions on who can print (did this via AD Groups)