Airprint betatesting

The past year I have been working on airprint, a printer utility based on ipp protocol.
I have had help from betatesters on the initial releases and hope for feedback on this forum.

In the future I will post updates here, and hopefully at the end get a usable printing utility for Amiga OS4

I start with version 0.20 which everyone who is interested in testing can download from here: AirPrint V0.20

1. After unarchiving, use the installer script, AirPrint will be installed in Sys:Prefs/Airprint directory.
2. Then open printer prefs and select airprint as printer driver and airprint.device as Port Device. Save and quit.

3. Open the Airprint utility from Sys:Prefs/Airprint directory and search for your printer and add it.

4. There is a settings tab in airprint where you select your spooler directory. Make sure you select a directory where you want all the spool files stored. In this version I don´t delete them after use so make sure you have good space on your disk. This is for troubleshooting later if I need to have a look at the files that have been sent to the printer.

5. Before using it, quit the program to make sure all settings are saved.

You should now be ready to use it for printing. It should support printing from:
1. notepad
2. AmiPDF
3. AmiGS
4. Odyssey
5. IBrowse (But follow their documentation for enabling fonts for printing)
6. Multiview
7. etc.

From airprint app itself you can open pdf and jpeg files for printing.

Don´t expect it to work perfectly or even at all for the moment, but every issues I hope you can bring up here and I expect many issues to arise in the beginning.

My email: arild.aarbakk@lyse.net

@mcleppa
Hi, I just installed Airprint, I own an Epson ET-2856 that work well with Airscan.
When I choose airprint.device from printer preferences I get
a message: Could not open file 'spool_l', triyng to add my
printer, the search function find the printer but when I choose it and click on 'Add printer' I get the message: Could not retrieve printerattributes for EPSON ET-2850 Series.

I put the spooler directory in an HDD with plenty space.

Anyway thanks for your work.

@mcleppa

Thank you for the trial version.
My printer is an Epson Workforce WF-2860, which also works with Airscan without any problems.
I installed Airprint exactly as described.
Unfortunately, my attempt to print from Odyssey didn't work.
However, there was a print preview and a message about it, see screenshots.
I hope that helps a little.

I've got the same message about the inability to retrieve printer attributes when I try to add the printer (HP Photosmart 5200).

@mcleppa
Thank you very much for effort.
I have similar isuue like pvanni and Petrol - stucked with this:



Find a printer ( HP LaserJet MFP M130fn ), and when press "Add Printer" nothing happen.
In one case I receive error message "Could not retrieve printerattributes", but in most cases It will do anything and cannot close window.

Printer has all services enabled, except FTP:



Are there possibility to enter printer attributes manually? In some .conf file for example?

P.S. tested on A1222+, X1000 and Sam460 - same symptoms. Probably it connected with printer response.

Thanx for testing. Could you try search and add printer again. And in T:Airprint direcrory there should be a file called debug.log. If you all could send me this file on my mail address I added in this original post, that would help me a lot.

@mcleppa

Hi Arild

I am testing v0.2 with Xerox WorkCentre 3225 (192.168.0.16 on my network)
My printer is found in Airprint utility however it can't retrieve information from the printer.

Airprint is enabled in the settings of Xerox

See
https://freeimage.host/i/24Sjssa

TCP settings of the printer is as follows:

https://freeimage.host/i/24S8W4n

Do I have to change something in the printer ?

I can print from iOS devices with this Xerox printer.

@SinanSam460

No changes needed from your part this is an issue from my program, I`ll do some changes and post an update here when finished

@mcleppa

Thanks for opening up the testing on this! I just tried it on
my X5K with an HP P4515 laserjet. My bug report was emailed to
your address.

THANKS AGAIN!

PJS