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SickHub / docker-cups-airprint

A standalone CUPS and Avahi (mDNS/Bonjour) server, exposing local printers on AirPrint for iOS devices
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Poking you about CUPS printing with Windows as server #36

Open vonj opened 2 years ago

vonj commented 2 years ago

Just a poke as requested:

https://github.com/istopwg/ippsample

Apparently, this is going to be CUPS software you can run on a Windows computer.

Also you might want to look into "print everywhere" which is somehow based on AirPrint.

DrPsychick commented 2 years ago

Thanks for poking @vonj! What I am looking for is using CUPS only as a printer queue/proxy, without needing to have a driver installed in CUPS. I don't even know if that makes sense tbh. What I have experienced with my Epson printer is that the Windows drivers produce better results, that is the only reason why the printer is still hooked up to a Windows machine. And the other reason is that I need to scan documents from time to time, which is just very easy to do with Windows.

I came across this when searching and it seems interesting, maybe it will help others. For now my setup works fine and I don't feel like investing too much time to change it. When printing does not work, I simply restart the container and 99% of the cases it works thereafter. https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB:_The_Basics