Airprint via the Raspberry PI

If you want to print from your Iphone or Ipad, you may want to make the raspberry PI a apple airprintserver. You need to be able to print from the raspberry PI. See my other articles for how to do that.

To be able to get AirPrint on your device, you will need to install the “Avahi daemon”

You can install this package to your Raspberry Pi by running the following command.

sudo apt install avahi-daemon

This package is an implementation of Apple’s Zeroconf architecture. This architecture typically goes by the name Bonjour.

Bonjour is what AirPrint uses to connect two separate devices such as an iPhone and your Raspberry Pi.

The files you want to print will be sent through the Bonjour daemon and then sent to the connected printer.

now restart the raspberry PI

sudo reboot

Happy raspberry printing.