Please test AirPrint on Natty and Oneiric

[Till Kamppeter]

Before reporting bugs, please check your CUPS package version. It must 
be 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3 on Natty and 1.4.6-11 on Oneiric. Wait for the 
mirrors to catch up if needed.

    Till

On 06/28/2011 06:19 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as a first step into support for printing from mobile devices I have
> made Apple's AirPrint working on Natty and Oneiric. AirPrint is the
> method how Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch print via IPP. I want to
> ask all of you to test this feature.
>
>
> What is AirPrint?
> -----------------
>
> http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/airprint.html
>
>
> What do you need?
> -----------------
>
> 1. An iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch with iOS 4.2 or newer. Update your
> device via iTunes if needed. If no update gets offered to you, update
> iTunes first, if after that you do not get an update offered, your
> device is too old.
>
> 2. A computer running Ubuntu Natty or Oneiric. Please update your
> computer to the newest state of the art with the update-manager. For
> Natty you need to activate the natty-proposed repository.
>
> 3. A print queue on your computer. If you do not have a printer, create
> a pseudo printer with the following commands in a terminal:
>
> cupsctl FileDevice=yes
> lpadmin -p test -E -v file:/tmp/test.ps -m drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd
> -o PageSize=A4
>
> When printing on this printer, you get a PostScript file /tmp/test.ps.
> Make it world-readable and display it with evince.
>
> If you have a printer, every printer which works under Ubuntu does
> AirPrint with Ubuntu, not only the HP printers listed on Apple's web
> site (they do AirPrint directly, without computer).
>
> 4. WLAN. Switch the internet access of your mobile device to WLAN. Your
> computer must be in the same LAN (on the same router), but it does not
> matter whether it is connected via ethernet cable or WLAN.
>
>
> How do you test?
> ----------------
>
> 1. On your computer start system-config-printer via System ->
> Administration -> Printing (GNOME Classic) or via Turn-off-button at the
> upper right -> System Settings -> Hardware -> Printing (Unity Natty) or
> via the command line (all systems including Unity Oneiric).
>
> 2. In system-config-printer choose Server -> Settings and activate
> "Published shared printers connected to this system". Click OK and then
> right-click on the icon of your print queue and choose Properties in the
> pop-up menu. In the Policies section of the dialog make sure that
> "Shared" is activated.
>
> 3. Make sure your mobile device is accessing your local network using
> WLAN and then open an application with printing functionality on it
> (like for example the browser or the photo viewer). Print something. The
> print dialog should show your print queue and allow some basic settings.
> Note that the Description/Info field and not the name of the queue is
> shown.
>
> 4. Check whether you get a correct printout.
>
> 5. Report your results here. If something goes wrong, report a bug on
> Launchpad.
>
>
> Links:
> ------
>
> http://www.finnie.org/2010/11/13/airprint-and-linux/
> This is the HOWTO on which my patches are based. On Natty and Oneiric
> you DO NOT need to create the Avahi service definition file described
> here and you DO NOT need to add a "ServerAlias *" line to cupsd.conf.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/711779
> The bug report which initiated my work on that problem.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/801306
> AirPrint only works with "ServerAlias *" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>
>
> Have a lot of fun with your first experience on mobile printing.
>
> Till
>