AirPrint on Fedora 17

/ Fred

A lot of person explain on internet how to share your non AirPrint server using Linux, Avahi and Cups

For Cups, you need to share the printer ( obvious ? ) and to allow Broadcasting like this

  1. Add to the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file 
    ServerAlias *
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow @LOCAL
BrowseAllow all
  2. Download airprint-generate.py from https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate
  3. Run airprint-generate.py
  4. Copy resulting files to/etc/avahi/services
  5. Restart cups and  avahi-daemon
But I realize this only work only a few minutes, so I tweak with a crontab doing :
[root@eden services]# cat > /etc/cron.hourly/avahi.cron <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
for i in /etc/avahi/services/*; do touch $i; done
EOF
[root@eden services]# chmod 755 /etc/cron.hourly/avahi.cron
[root@eden services]# /etc/cron.hourly/avahi.cron

Hope it helps !

3 thoughts on “AirPrint on Fedora 17”

  1. AS ROOT:
    echo “image/urf urf (0,UNIRAST)” > /usr/share/cups/mime/apple.types
    echo “image/urf application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 pdftops” > /usr/share/cups/mime/local.convs
    # pdftops can be installed with: yum install poppler-utils
    #restore SELINUX permissions
    restorecon /usr/share/cups/mime/*
    #restart cups (print server)
    systemctl restart cups.service

    AS USER:
    #download airprint-generate.py as stated above and run it from: https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate
    cd /tmp/
    python airprint-generate.py

    AS ROOT:
    mv /tmp/AirPrint-*.service /etc/avahi/services/
    restorecon /etc/avahi/services/*
    #restart the avahi service
    systemctl restart avahi-daemon.service

    #check the new AirPort service is running
    avahi-browse –all
    # no avahi-browse ?, install it: yum install avahi-tools

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  2. You also need to add the urf type to CUPS. In /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.types, in the image files section, add the line
    image/urf urf string(0,UNIRAST)
    In /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs, in the raster filters section, add the line
    image/urf application/vnd.cups-raster 100 imagetoraster
    Then restart CUPS with systemctl restart cups

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  3. Oops: instead of adding the above lines to mime.types and mime.convs (which get overwritten next time CUPS is upgraded), create new files local.types and local.convs (same directory) and put
    image/urf urf string(0,UNIRAST)
    in local.types and
    image/urf application/vnd.cups-raster 100 imagetoraster
    in local.convs. Then restart CUPS with
    systemctl restart cups

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