Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RP into an Air Print?

akeck · on Oct 12, 2021

The nuts and bolts of AirPrint are CUPS (linux printer server) plus Avahi (mDNS infrastructure, known in Apple land as Rendevous). My recollection is that to get my USB printer to AirPrint, I only needed to install the CUPS and Avahi packages, and then things magically worked. YMMV.

JeanSebTr · on Oct 12, 2021

Didn't knew it once was named Rendez-vous!

It has been called Bonjour for a long time now.

starik36 · on Oct 12, 2021

I have it running right now. My old school LaserJet 1320 is wireless on my home network. It's connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

As someone mentioned, it's basically CUPS and Avahi. I've set it up years ago and it just runs.

The only thing that sucks is that printing from an iPhone takes about 5 minutes because of all the processing on the RPi. I suppose using a higher end RPi would fix that, but I like the small form factor. Printing from a PC is instant.

HellsMaddy · on Oct 12, 2021

Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RPi into a Chromecast?

mehalter · on Oct 12, 2021

Not quite Chromecast functionality, but there is a similar project from Balena that adds Spotify Connect, Airplay, and Bluetooth to a speaker using a Raspberry Pi

https://sound.balenalabs.io/

kayodelycaon · on Oct 12, 2021

Air print is really easy. It’s built into Utunu printer sharing. https://askubuntu.com/questions/26130/how-can-share-my-print...

mehalter · on Oct 12, 2021

There is a very similar level of magic for converting a raspberry pi to do AirPrint

https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint

automato · on Oct 12, 2021

THANK YOU! I was looking up and down the net for something like this, couldn't find it for the life of me.

Unklejoe · on Oct 12, 2021

I was able to do this on Ubuntu 16.04 with CUPS. It was surprisingly easy. I just googled and followed some guide on the first page of results.

BBC-vs-neolibs · on Oct 12, 2021

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