[arch-general] avahi wiki addition of airprint services - please review

[David C. Rankin]

On 02/16/2012 05:39 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, David C. Rankin
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>>  I updated the avahi wiki to include a useful snippet about enabling print
>> capabilities from mobile devices. Please review and revise if there are any
>> tweaks needed. Thanks.
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Avahi#Airprint_from_Mobile_Devices
> 
> I have never manually set up something like this, so I might be wrong
> here. However, on my parent's Ubuntu machine this "just worked"
> without any configuration at all, so I'm a bit surprised that a
> printer specific configuration is needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom
> 

I had to manually add it to get the iPhone to print directly to the laserjet.
Other hardware may do a better job, but if you need to print from iOS, you have
to manually create the service. (It may be intentional - there are several
pay-to-print apps available...)

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.