Printing PDF on iOS using printer w/o AirPrint

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Hello!

I'm looking for a solution which is able to print a PDF document from iOS device on any network printer with known IP-address (AirPrint is not available). In other words, I need a tool (SDK, library, etc.) to convert PDF to PostScript that works on iOS. If Adobe has any king of this?

Thanks you in advance!

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You should also bear in mind that this is a very common need, both at an individual and enterprise level. There are many existing off-the-shelf solutions. These include (I have no personal recommendations)

* inexpensive per-printer network devices with a USB connection

* per-workstation apps to share your own printers with Airprint

* per-server apps to share a larger set of enterprise printers with Airprint.

* probably other ingenious ideas I never heard of.

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Many network printers have a web page where you can submit a job so try the IP address in a browser.

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Good advice, thanks. I'll check if it is possible to set up a web printing service on our devices.

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Adobe has no SDK for this on iOS (can be done with paid-for Acrobat on Windows and Mac).

But what would you do for non-PostScript printers?

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Yep, Acrobat is a good thing but does not fit our current task. I have an idea to render PDF into images (PNG, JPEG) page by page and then create a simple Postscript command set to print this image sequence. It should look like the original PDF.

I haven't dealt with non-PostScript yet as we have a few models to work with and hopefully all they support PostScript.

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