On Tue 08 Mar 2016 at 14:15:54 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 12:02 +0000, Brian wrote: > > The MFC-J5720DW supports AirPrint. Depending on which applications > > you print from you do not require cupsd on the PC, so you could > > dispense with a PPD and driver. > > Do you know if/how this works on Debian?
The printer does Bonjour broadcasting. The broadcasts are detected on Debian by avahi-daemon. Applications using the GTK print dialog (for example, Iceweasel) can use avahi-daemon directly to display the printer in the dialog. Non-GTK applications cannot consult avahi-daemon directly and need cups-browsed and cupsd to get the printer displayed. I do not have an AirPrint capable printer but have complete faith in the process working. :) > I find a lot of information about setting up Cups as an AirPrint > server, but nothing about using it as a client. This is really about using CUPS with an AirPrint device such as an iPAD and printing to a non-AirPrint capable printer. The Debian CUPS has been patched to do this; no setup is required on the server.
