Set up a Mac OS 10.8+ system to act as your iPad / iPhone print server. This can be as simple as purchasing a Mac Mini system and making it accessible from the wireless network. A print server can be a dedicated server but on many networks this server also performs other tasks, such as file serving they would prefer not to upgrade), you can configure a separate (secondary) Mac OS 10.8 print server to share print queues. Users submit print jobs to a print server rather then directly to the printer itself. installation and advertises the PaperCut print queues to iOS devices.įor Windows, Linux or Novell sites (or sites with a Mac OS 10.6 or older print server A print server is a system responsible for hosting print queues and sharing printer resources to desktops. A secondary server can be a server style system hosting many printers, a desktop style system hosting printer(s) also shared to other network users, or a desktop style system with the printer used only for local users (not shared). The PaperCut Printer Advertiser is a part of the PaperCut primary and secondary server A PaperCut secondary server is a system that directly hosts a printer, that is, a print server with a Print Provider installed.
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Mac OS X 10.10 or greater system to share the print queues (computer version is fine, server tools not required)Īpple iOS 5 or greater devices to print from PaperCut NG/MF's solution for iPad/iPhone Printing now allows you to leverage your existing network and PaperCut NG/MF setup. Additionally, most larger organizations want to leverage their existing print infrastructure, policies and print rules rather than change them. Some printers include built-in support for AirPrint® (for printing direct from iOS devices to the printer), however, the nature of print control/accounting requires that print jobs are intercepted by a central server. For more information, see Mobility Print. Mobility Print, however, allows you to see the print queues across multiple subnets. PaperCut NG/MF uses existing technologies built into Mac OS (Bonjour/mDNS) to advertise PaperCut NG/MF managed server shared print queues so you an track and control iPad/iPhone printing. The PaperCut NG/MF iOS App, providing support for print authentication, balance display, account selection and other features.Īt the time of writing there is no built-in option provided by Apple to print from an iOS device to server shared print queues. Bonjour locates devices such as printers, other computers, and the services that those devices offer on a local network using multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) service records./mDNS (so the iPads / iPhones users can find the PaperCut NG/MF controlled queues). printers managed by PaperCut NG/MF using Bonjour Bonjour is Apple's implementation of zero-configuration networking (zeroconf), a group of technologies that includes service discovery, address assignment, and hostname resolution. A computer running CUPS is a host that can accept print jobs from client computers, process them, and send them to the appropriate printer.
The PaperCut NG/MF Printer Advertiser - advertises the Apple CUPS Common User Printing System (CUPS) is a printing system for Unix operating systems that allows a computer to act as a print server. PaperCut NG/MF's iPad/iPhone Printing support works by providing two key parts: The PaperCut NG/MF iPad/iPhone App is able to be deployed / installed in a pre-configured form for your network via a simple URL. As well as enabling printing, the PaperCut NG/MF iPad/iPhone App also provides the rich functionality desktop users are used to, such as authentication, balance display and selecting / charging to Shared accounts when printing. PaperCut NG/MF's iPad/iPhone Printing support enables printing to all your PaperCut NG/MF managed printers across your enterprise (and iOS devices - iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch).
We highly recommend reading about Mobility Print and following the set-up instructions in the Mobility Print Help Center. This section describes our legacy approach to iOS printing.
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