Hi all,Anybody dare try to compile an add-on to enable AirPrint to printers connected to a readynas duo? Apparently it has been done fairly simple on a ubuntu box (http://www.micromux.com/2010/11/22/airp ... -on-linux/), but I have accepted that I do not have the skills so I was hoping that the intress was sufficient for somebody willing to write an add-on...

Ok, have been doing some digging into this. I can fairly easily get the printer to show up when browsing for printers on my iOS devices, that only takes addition of two lines in the printers Bonjour service-file in /etc/avahi/services/However when I send a print job from an iOS device to the printer attached to the ReadyNAS nothing happens - no error and no print. It seems the problem is that the iOS device sends the print job as a pdf-file to the printer, and that the cups version on the ReadyNAS has no pdf-filter included. I can get the package cups-pdf via apt-get, but that will at the same time update the cups version, and I do not think that a newer cups-version is compatible with Frontview.So does anybody know a way to get a pdf-filter included in the cups-version on the ReadyNAS?

This would be really great to print with the iPAD over the NAS - up to now for me printing over the iPAd works only when i attached the printer directly to the router and the method described here http://www.lisanet.de/?p=71. I didn´t see the Printer attached to the NAS (Bonjour is activated and works as I see the printer with Bonjour for Windows ...) So how do you manage to see the printer?

As mentioned above you need to add a little to the Bonjour broadcast of your printer. You do this by going to the folder /etc/avahi/services/ and find the service file for your printer. For me it was named PRINTER-Q8330B.service. Open this file in an editor. and add the following:- Under the type-class add the following: <subtype>_universal._sub._ipp._tcp</subtype>- As the last of the txt-recording add the following: <txt-record>URF=none</txt-record> (URF can apparently be set to whatever without making any difference as long as it is not empty, so it seems this is a call that is reserved for later use.- Finally in the txt-recording with the call to "pdl" you probably need to include at least "application/pdf" to possible formatsAdding all of this will make the printer show up on your iPad, however I am far from certain that your printer will work. As far as I can gather the printer either needs to be able to accept and interpret pdf-files. Otherwise CUPS needs to be able to interpret the pdf file for the printer, which is why I am looking for a way to get a pdf-filter installed.Please note that you need to have ssh enabled to do this.

* bump* Nobody that can help with a pdf-filter on a Duo?

it will require to install cups-pdf which is not simple even on x86 :(best way will be to ask jedi's to add pdf support to cups in next firmware version, then doing an addon for airprint will be easy :)

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super_poussin
Virtuoso
Sep 26, 2011
chirpa wrote:
Maybe in the next x86 release (after 4.2.16).

4.2.20 ?
MacManiak
Aspirant
Oct 06, 2011
super-poussin wrote:
chirpa wrote:
Maybe in the next x86 release (after 4.2.16).

4.2.20 ?

Merry X-Mas.....
soremaniac
Aspirant
Nov 23, 2011
how is 4.2.20 doing... :-?
WhoCares_
Mentor
Nov 23, 2011
I've got an add-on ready for x86 ReadyNAS boxes that would offer AirPrint out of the box for every "known" printer. But there's a catch: It will replace some crucial parts of the core system, namely CUPS and Samba. While all the publicly available patches from Netgear are included I obviously give no guarantee that it won't break your ReadyNAS. Anyone willing to beta-test?

-Stefan
ReadyNASUser
Aspirant
Dec 04, 2011
Just wondering... @WhoCares... is your approach based on this: http://www.fiorellonj.com/wp/2010/11/airprint-using-ubuntu-server-and-a-network-printer/?

@Chipra...any chance for this on Sparc? NV+
WhoCares_
Mentor
Dec 04, 2011
ReadyNASUser wrote:
Just wondering... @WhoCares... is your approach based on this: http://www.fiorellonj.com/wp/2010/11/airprint-using-ubuntu-server-and-a-network-printer/?

No, it isn't.

-Stefan
schalliol
Aspirant
Feb 20, 2012
I just thought I'd chime in that I'd really enjoy an add-on that would enable me to use my Brother HL-4570CDW laser printer via AirPrint on my iPad and iPhones! If can't be part of the standard OS/Add-ons, would be happy to pay/donate for such an add on (looking at you super-poussin :D )
Papagaiou
Aspirant
Nov 10, 2013
Hi WhoCares

What is the status for the addon for Cloud print? I tried myself manually but I got stuck to installing python-cups as well. I do not mind trying the addon.

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