I want to Know whether I can print a file through AIRPrint Printers only.
OR
I can print through a normal Printer connected to a Machine which can be connected through WIFI.
Thank you.
There's no built in API to print to anything other than an AirPrint printer.
If you put in all the hard work of writing your own printer drivers (or porting someone else's), you could presumably print to a normal printer, but it ain't going to be simple.
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I am developing a Flutter app, and I’ve been trying to print via usb in a thermal printer. I have found a lot of libraries/package for bluetooth thermal printers, but I need my program ALSO works via USB.
I only have found one package that allows me to print in almost any printer, the name of the package is “printing”, but this works whit PDF’s, and the thermal printer doesn’t allow print PDF’s.
Note: The app I am developing is for Windows.
Does someone know some package or method I can try to achieve my goal?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I would add a comment but I don't yet have enough reputation. However, I have faced a similar issue recently attempting to print to a thermal receipt printer that is USB.
The only solution I found was to create a flutter plugin with native windows code and use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/winspool/. There is the win 32 package that could do the same thing https://pub.dev/packages/win32.
Hopefully someone else may have a better solution, but that is something to look into.
Try looking into quick_usb to connect to the printer via usb
I want to print from iOS app to thermal printer (connected to a network) that use ESC/POS command.
I have already a framework that translate a text to ESC/POS command but I don’t know how to send it to the printer.
I think that the steps are:
connection to printer
send code to printer
close connection to printer when job is done.
Somebody can help me?
can any body tell me how to integrate wifi printer option in an iPhone app? I have to get print from small receipt printers and my printers are not AirPrint supported.
My printer models are
EPSON TM T88, EPSON TM P60 and EPSON TM U220B network printers
I want to acces the printer via IP address
You must have an AirPrint supported printer.
References:
Drawing and Printing Guide for iOS
AirPrint 101
Normally, you must have an AirPrint supported printer. However there are workarounds:
The procedure here will allow you to print to any printer connected to windows.
Printopia will allow it on Macs.
I'm sure there are other methods/applications that allow it as well, just search them on Google or the App Store.
Printing over wifi with the iphone is somewhat of an iffy issue, only some printers are supported and for most of them a mac machine is obligatory.
However if you have jailbroken your phone you can search in cydia for an app that's called truprint. This one allows you to print with every printer that has wifi capability. The app is not free but there is a light version that i think will cover your needs.
For Epson receipt printers there is the ePOS-SDK for iOS. Using this you can print via WiFi and Bluetooth. The SDK is provided here:
http://download.epson-biz.com/
try the print n share or printcentral apps
Is there a way to send a print request to a printer using wifi or some other means?
Edit:
There must be, because there are some applications which lets you do that. But how do they do it? For example,
HP iPrint Photo
Air Photo
EuroSmartzPrint
and maybe others as well.
There's no native way to print in Apple's SDK. Air Photo prints using a helper app installed on a computer, so it sends the request to the desktop app which actually sends the print request. HP's app can connect to HP printers that it can find on the network, presumably using Bonjour. The difficulty with printing directly is getting the right drivers, fortunately for HP, they make the printers too. EuroSmartz I believe does both previous methods, but they make no claim as to how good the quality will actually be printing directly to the printer, probably because they can't include vendor supplied drivers.
So, if you want to print your options are:
Connect to the printer via Bonjour and attempt to print without vendor supplied drivers (maybe you can find open source ones).
Write a desktop app to assist in printing. (Better quality, but requires a middle man.)
Update:
With iOS 4.2, Apple is including a new technology called "AirPrint". Apple is essentially doing both #1, by printing directly to HP printers that support ePrint (my understanding is that this doesn't use drivers in the traditional sense), and #2 by printing via a Mac with OS X 10.6.5.
Yes, you can certainly find printers nearby using Bonjour and the NSNetServiceBrowser class. Specifically you'd want to send its searchForServicesOfType: message, with a type of #"_ipp._tcp" (nearby printers). Check out the Browsing for Services article in the developer documentation. How the actual spooling to print works is beyond me. I'm just learning GameKit/Bonjour right now.
As far as I know it is only possible if the devices are Bonjour-enabled as part of the Made For iPod program. Then you can use EAAccessoryManager and related classes to make a connection and send data to the device. This is one of the harder things you can attempt on an iPhone...
Here's another (perhaps) useful question on the subject.
I'm hunting for a mobile POS printer for use in a mobile point-of-sale application (BestSeller). The requeriments is that must work independent of anything except the mobile device. So the solution is only: Printer + iPhone.
I have a early question on this, here but with not answers.
The idea is that the printer work as their own server and I can send print commands to make tickets and that stuff.
The salesman work outside the company,and have not ascces to internet or other facilities.
I found this:
http://www.barcodegiant.com/epson/mobilink.htm
and
http://www.barcodegiant.com/zebra/mz220.htm
but is not clear to me if will work as I imagine. And also, I don't find any how to in how make the programing...
You should probably just send your salesmen with laptops and printers as that solution is easy and well supported. I don't know of any solutions currently that would allow you to connect an iPhone directly to a printer or to print to a printer with wifi. Printing solutions currently available require some sort of desktop or server app counterpart to facilitate the actual printing.