CUPS Airprint Container

Description

An Ubuntu based CUPS print container that allows for Airprint. For use with printers/networks that don't offer airprint.

Starting The Container

To start the container and connect it to Avanhi on th host:

docker run --rm --name CupsAirprint -e CUPSADMIN=cupsadmin -e CUPSPASSWORD=cupspassword -v /mnt/tank/docker/cups-airprint/config:/config -v /etc/avahi/services:/services -p 631:631 cups-airprint

Notes

• CUPS doesn't like printers.conf being mounted directly as it appears to delete/recreate it with changes, so we copy it in on start and then watch for it to change to make a backup of it.
• Watching for the printers.conf file changing also triggers generating the Avahi services. Thanks to @thfontaine for the script! https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate

Building The CUPS Airprint Container

After cloning the repository, simply execute the make build command while in the repository root path to execute a docker build of the current Dockerfile. The Makefile contains a number of useful commands which perform different actions.

Getting In Contact

If you find any issues with this container or want to recommend some improvements, fell free to get in contact with me or submit pull requests on github.