@livebyfaith74

Can you send me a mail: arild.aarbakk@lyse.net

And I will send you an updatet version you can test.

@McFly

And thank you for your generous donation earlier 👍🙂

@Raziel

hp m140we should work with airscan and airprint.

Airscan documentation is missing for sure, and I will add it on next update.
Airscan should not freeze your system when scanning, so this is a bug I need to rectify

Airscan formats is dependent on scanner you are using, but all scanners support pdf and jpeg, some scanners also use png and octet stream which is raw format. My program give you the choice of what format to save as. And the only thing it does is saving the document in the format sent by scanner.

You can choose if you want to scan from from platen or from the document feeder. Scanning from platen give you one page scan. Document feeder will scan all sheets and give you a pdf with all pages, if you choose feeder and format jpeg, it will scan all sheets and store as seperate jpegs.

If choosing preview, I use jpeg and datatypes to show the image. You can then rightclick and hold the mousebutton while choosing the area to scan, and when scanning your document will be the selected area.

@Raziel

Looks like yore printer won’t work, it is not airprint compatible

@Vulture
Your printer should work.

@AmigaSociety

Your printer is airprint ready, so should work, if this is a multifunction printer/scanner, You can download airscan on os4depot. If it find your printer and you manage to scan, it will also work for printing with airprint.

@SinanSam460

Yes It would be much appreciated if some of you guys are able to test before releasing, but need to implement some more functions first. More testers, the better result for the end user..

@Raziel

yes, it should 😀

@LiveForIt

Should work with almost all network printers. But not usb printers.

I have Epson, Canon and HP envy printers and works on all of them.

Just wanted to give an update of the current situation of the airprint.device.

As of this moment the program autodetects printers trough mdns protocol, and I have now been able to print trough the printer.device successfully. There are still a lot of work to be done and time to be spent before I can release it, but some good progress anyway.

As mentioned in another post, printer.device use a gs interpreter which is old so I need to update this one with a newer version.

Still working on converting raw text to graphics, so this is not finished.

So much to do, so little time 🙂

Forgotten how fun it was, here is my score

New score:

After many attempts

I am for sure buying one, then I have my old Sam440ep, X5000 and hopefully an A1222 :)

@Hans

the mdns sourcecode is easy adaptable for your use, I can send you the sourcecode when I get back home from vacation.

@Chris

Thank you for your input Chris, now I have an idea how communication is from the amiga to the printer. As you mention then my ipp.device should open my own prefs editor which sends the communication from there.

I have also checked your sourcecode for ipp.device that has helped me a lot so far.

Could you help me out Chris in making a device or pointing out where in the sourcecode I can input code for starting up such an editor?

@walkero

Thank you walkero, I have started to look into wiki documentation and the driver sourcecode, this is a good start.

I started looking into the printing part of the Amiga last year , due the lack of support we have today, and as mentioned IPP is the way to go regards the communication. Today most printers support the PWG-raster format. Both ipp and pwg-raster is open source and documented protocols.

Our printers should be autodetected trough mdns/dns-sd protocol. I have made a working sourcecode for detecting printers/scanners trough mdns protocol. ( I use this in Airscan for detecting scanners ).

I have started with the IPP communication and successfully manages to send supported formats to printer, and are able to print to ipp printers.

The remaining part that I struggle with is how amiga os4 sends its binary to print from the print command and trough its device.

I was thinking about copying the rasterport to print and convert it to pwg-raster, but this is as far I have come.

Maybe coders of ipp.device and other printer.devices could offer some help here?