iPad Printing

[Matt]

How is everyone here handling iPad printing?

Airplay is out of the picture and Printopia seems pretty pricey.

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Matt Lee, CCA/ACMT/ACPT/ACDT
Senior IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper Administrator
Fox Networks Group

[ernstcs]

We don't print…digital world, who needs paper?

[tlarkin]

Oh Craig....if I could actually convince academia of that. They want
to print out everything.

[ernstcs]

No worries, Tom. I'm just waiting for it to come…

[jhalvorson]

HP would gladly talk to you with a managed print solution for iOS devices. Contact them to hear their solution.

While listening to an hp presentation (mostly thinking the whole idea of a iPad is to be a portable dynamic paper replacement) I did pick up on that is not as simple as enabling your existing printers/print servers and could be costly.

Jason

[rob_potvin]

The more digital work we produce here the more printing there is...

LOL

[#7]

http://netputing.com/airprintactivator/

Richard Goody
Apple Systems Consultant

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[#8]

Hi Matt,
Essentially it seems airprint is just specially crafted Bonjour service records and a print server that can have PDF's (such as CUPS)
I found the following quite an interesting read, and would be a good base if you wanted to roll your own:
http://www.finnie.org/2010/11/13/airprint-and-linux/

You can use the dns-sd utility to advertise your own bonjour services on a Mac, and unicast bonjour is an option if you need to advertise over multiple subnets.

Regards,
Wayne Parrott
Apple Systems Engineer
Leading Edge Sunshine Coast

Apple Certified System Administrator 10.6

[jarednichols]

Hey now that's pretty dang cool! We're in the process of standardizing our multi-function devices throughout the buildings so it would probably be fairly easy to hook this onto our print server and offer this service should we roll out iPads.

Neat!!

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[jarednichols]

Careful, they may discontinue their solution tomorrow ;)

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436