Following up on a previous post on Airprint and Ubuntu, iOS 6 requires some ‘fixes’ on CUPS to get things working again.
Simply:
cd /usr/share/cups/mime
create the following 2 files:
airprint.convs # # "$Id: $" # # AirPrint # Updated list with minimal set 25 Sept image/urf application/pdf 100 pdftoraster # # End of "$Id: $". #
airprint.types
# # "$Id: $" # # AirPrint type image/urf urf string(0,UNIRAST<00>) # # End of "$Id: $". #
I wound up recreating the service files for my printers with airprint-generate.py but didn’t notice any changes. Couldn’t hurt. Then restart cups and avahi.
References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1054495
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12253212
Hi thnere,
I’m trying to airprint from an ios device straight to pdf via cups-pdf on linux mint. Have you had success with the latest iOS versions? I am able to get the iOS device to recognize the airprint cups-pdf printer, but it does not successfully print.
cheers
a
Sorry, haven’t used CUPS and AirPrint for a long while.