I have a Brother laser printer/scanner combo that I bought 8 years ago, I actual...

lloeki · on Aug 31, 2022

Then don't! Plug it to a Pi or something like that and turn it into an AirPrint server, which is (an extension of) IPP plus Bonjour for discovery.

yardie · on Aug 31, 2022

Just get a raspberry pi, the cheapest will do, and you now have Airprint.

spikej · on Aug 31, 2022

Same here.

The android brother plug in sucks and I wish google cloud print was still around. I tried mobility print but it didn't quite work as expected and decided to just stick to printing from my laptop.

lotsofpulp · on Aug 31, 2022

I thought that too, but once I had access to AirPrint I realized I have never needed to print from my phone, or even barely ever from my laptop.

sgjohnson · on Aug 31, 2022

Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi and expose the printer over network

There you go, DIY AirPrint

mkopinsky · on Aug 31, 2022

I tried this with a Brother HL-L23200 printer and an old raspberry pi, and couldn't get it to work. Seemed like something in the stack was OOM'ing - it worked fine for just a page or two, but when I tried to print a longer document it would crap out. I gave up and now on the rare occasion when I need to print something I carry my laptop over and physically plug in the USB cord like a neanderthal.