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Not sure about your network setup but this is probably your best solution. There is a way to deploy certain printers to certain users too.
Papercut makes a thing called Mobility Print which is free (even if you don’t use Papercut). It does exactly what you want.
There’s a bit of setup, depending on network complexity, but basically: you throw their server on your network, connect to the printers and an auth provider, and have the users go to the link it generates on their devices to get AirPrint sorted. Then they can just use the Print button anywhere in iOS, and they can print (authenticated and everything). If you’re feeling clever you can just deploy the settings using your MDM so you don’t even have to train the users at all.
Papercut has a free utility called Mobility Print. We're using it for all of our machines in the district (Chrome and Windows), and it's been great!
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
> AppleTalk
AppleTalk was deprecated probably 15 years ago (if not more?). Are you thinking of AirPrint?
Anyway, I think the popular answer to this question is Papercut Mobility Print. It's free, even if you don't use Papercut (although maybe you should, if you have the budget your life will be easier), and you basically throw it on a VM (or multiple VMs if you have multiple sites and complex requirements), and tell it how to find your printers. Then you can either push the settings to access the server via your Apple MDM/Google Admin Console, or if your network isn't that complicated, Apple stuff should just discover it via mDNS. Chromebooks will require you to send an invite link, so it's probably best to do those via the admin console.
It can work alongside your Windows print server or replace it if you are cool with pushing the mobility print client to your Windows fleet. It doesn't have as much customization (you can configure authentication and quota stuff, but anything super interesting requires paying for Papercut), but if you literally need something to connect printers to whatever, it works really well.
In any case, don't bother trying to get the Macs to print without Bonjour/AirPrint. It's too much of a pain, honestly. AirPrint is standardized, Apple requires the printer vendors to implement the spec so there's no drivers to install. CUPS works much the same way. (AirPrint also falls apart without something like Mobility Print if you have multiple subnets, so if that's you then ignore this last point. but deploy mobility print, you can't do better for free).
They also released Mobility Print as a free, standalone product.
We have PaperCut MF and the upfront costs were around $3K for licensing, setup, training and key fob readers for our 2 copiers, but our yearly support & maintenance is under $400.
Might I suggest giving PaperCut Mobility Print a try? It is free, super easy to setup, and the Chrome deployment "process" just involves pushing an extension to the Chromebooks. There is BYOD discovery support via DNS as well.
If you decide to try it and run into any trouble, just let me know - recently finished a deployment of Mobility Print to replace Cloud Print.
It appears that PaperCut has a solution for this. We have a PaperCut representative that posts here, I'll tag them ( /u/igotapapercut ) to see if they can add some information about their service:
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
If your business relies heavily on GCP, I recommend choosing and implementing a solution quickly. As you know, Google is planning on shutting down this service at the end of the year:
Check out Papercut Mobility Print. It was originally part of the larger Papercut suite but they released it separately for free after Google Cloud Print ended. I work with print solutions all day and always recommend this one first for clients looking for something simple.
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Google Cloud Print would've been a good solution there if google didn't kill it at the start of this year, goes via internet so the school's firewalling isn't a problem, could try clones/alternatives of it like PaperCut, has Chrome OS support, https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Can you have both printers permanently attached to the Ubuntu box?
We actually use https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Mobility Print is installed on our server... so I really shouldn't say cloud print (it's what I tell the COO and CEO, and they understand it better) but the gist of it is then I do not have to install printer drivers per each computer, I can just install it and select which printers are available on the computer. It's pretty neat and comes with free Toner tracking etc.
You can install Mobility Print on the computer that has access to your printers, and then share access to that printer from the other computer.
Download Mobility Print here: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
No need to open inbound ports, Mobility Print creates an encrypted peer-to-peer connection to submit print jobs.
Oh, and it is free.
I work for PaperCut btw.
Just adding the download link to make things easy: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Mobility Print includes a free cloud print service that allows you to print over the internet from Chromebooks (and more). But if you only want local printing with Mobility Print, then that is an option too.
Mobility Print supports practically all printers.
You can actually use Mobility Print for free.
On a Windows computer that has the printers installed, install the Mobility Print server component: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
It will then broadcast those printers so that iPhones can print to it.
Only when you also want print management to track and control printing would you need PaperCut NG or MF, which costs money.
PS, I'm the product manager that looks after Mobility Print
Willem here, the product manager that looks after Mobility Print.
Happy to help you get up and running, and also get to understand where you got blocked so we can make it easier for others.
At a high level:
- Install the printer on the computer that has direct access to the printer.
- Install Mobility Print on that same computer.
- An admin interface should come up. Enable Cloud Print.
- Create an invite link
- Open the invite link from your remote PC, and follow the steps presented.
After this setup, you should have your printer available on your remote computer. If this does not work, reach out to our support: https://support.papercut.com/hc/en-us
I am of course a little bit biased with this one but PaperCut have a free cloud print replacement that has been working well for a lot of users.
You can install Mobility Print on the Linux box, and then use that to share printers with your Chromebook. It is free to use. https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
It also includes a Cloud Print feature, which will route print jobs over an encrypted peer-to-peer connection over the internet on the occasions when you need to print remotely. This is free too.
BTW, I work at PaperCut.
Please note, I do work for PaperCut. We have a free solution called Mobility Print that will allow you to print remotely: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
If you have a computer that has local access to your printer, then install Mobility Print on it. You can then create an invite for the client laptop to print remotely. Mobility Print will then create an encrypted peer-to-peer connection to send your print jobs.
(Edit) Printing is native from any application, you don't have to rely on emails.
PS, Cloud Print is now available for Windows devices too. This time with Mac being around the corner.
You can get Mobility Print from the link previously shared: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
It is 100% free to use, no matter the size of your organization.
G'day,
Thanks for the tag.
Rpi's are a beaut little thing and we have a documented way of getting one to run a release station here: https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/RaspberryPiReleaseStation
That said, Rpi's are not x86 chips and as such can't run the primary PaperCut NG/MF services or PaperCut Mobility Print services. Hence the sys-req's on your link.
PaperCut Mobility Print has just released "Cloud printing" for Chrome/ChromeOS and other operating systems are coming "real soon". This could mean you host a VM in your cloud of choice, which would be able to print to your printers in question. That'll solve your "Print Enablement" predicament.
More about that here..
Landing page: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Let me know if you have any further questions.
G'day everyone,
PaperCutter here.
/u/first_byte, you'll probably want to look at PaperCut Mobility Print. Its free :-) Not *free, but totally free, as in there are no limits. This will enable you to get printers onto Chromebooks, macOS, Windows devices and get paper out of the printer.
Landing page is here: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Manual is here: https://www.papercut.com/support/resources/manuals/mobility-print/
With regards to PaperCut Mobility Print, Chromebooks can print 'over the internet' (e.g. not on prem) and other OSes are coming real soon now.
If you want to track and recoup printing costs, then you'll be looking at PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF.
While Reddit is not an official support channel, we do maintain a presence here and I'm happy to answer (or find answers for) any questions people have.
+3495348540385 papercut. You can use their FREE solution if money is a factor - https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
I'm in no way affiliated with Papercut, just a regular user of their products.
There's really only one alternative available, luckily for us it's totally free and supports all kinds of devices ranging from Chromebooks, iPhones, iPads to Linux and Windows PCs.
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
You can run it either on a Linux print server with Cups or a Windows PC or server machine with normal Windows printer services.
It appears that PaperCut has a solution for this. We also have a PaperCut representative that posts here, I'll tag them ( /u/igotapapercut ) to see if they can add some information about their service:
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Alternatively, you could have an IT consultant setup a secure VPN connection between your two locations so that the printers/computers can see and print normally.
If your business relies heavily on GCP, I recommend choosing and implementing a solution quickly, as Google is planning on shutting down this service at the end of the year:
Willem here from PaperCut. In regards to Google Cloud Print inside of PaperCut, have you had a look at Mobility Print yet? That is the alternative customers are migrating to. https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
We are currently running a closed beta that enables printing over the internet from Chromebooks, and soon after that Windows and Mac will be added. Mobility Print already solves local BYOD printing for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Chromebooks, and will work great with your Find Me setup.
I've been using it to push to Chromebooks.
If you're using Windows, you might try something like Paper cut mobility print.
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/#downloadSection
As others have said, CUPS LPD/IPP printing works fine for Linux-Linux.
For Android, PaperCut Mobility Print is a good self-hosted alternative to Google Cloud Print (which is, or is about to be discontinued). It's free too (unlike the other PaperCut products).
I was stuck as well when this was announced. We had a few hundred users using cloud print.
We use papercut in our organisation. It offered publishing Google cloud printers.
If you don't want to pay for a full license you can use the papercut mobility for free. It'll give you printer access from any device, but not from any network, as you had with Google cloud print.
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Papercut have a free product called mobility print you may want to look into.
Has the added bonus of making it easier for non-windows machines to print.
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Mobility print is free and works really simply and easily.
I started using it a little before they announced the end of cloud print as I was having issues with a printer with cloud print and native print.
Would definitely recommend.
Heyo /u/imatechgirl & /u/Balor_Gafdan,
PaperCutter here. As of just recently, PaperCut Mobility is now a free, stand alone product.
Tour Page here: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Chromebook Printing here: https://www.papercut.com/support/resources/manuals/mobility-print/mobility-print-devices/topics/en/client-setup-chrome.html PaperCut Mobility will get you up and printing. Add in PaperCut NG or PaperCut MF and you'll get tracking, quotas, filters, reports, and more.
Let me know if you have questions.
We recently made Mobility Print free: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
On the page we have a comparison chart to explain when Mobility Print on its own would be enough for you or when you would want to run it with PaperCut.
There is no limit on how many people can print through the free product.
With Google Cloud Print going away, I'd like to add that PaperCut has their Mobility Print solution for free now: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/
Sorry to hear about your experience. We are actually working with WeWork to migrate over to Mobility Print. Not sure if my PaperCut vendor flair will show up here, if not, I work at PaperCut.
The credential popup you are talking about use to be the way we solved printing from BYO / unauthenticated devices before we released Mobility Print in 2017. Mobility Print is ten times better than the client popup authentication method, and Mobility Print quickly became our most popular BYO solution.
At the moment over 10 million users are printing via Mobility Print.
Here is the free download: https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/ Give it a go and see for yourself.
Papercut has released their mobility print for free (a thread in r/k12sysadmin has papercut employees hinting to it was coordinated with Google).
https://www.papercut.com/products/free-software/mobility-print/