AirPrint is Apple's technology for enabling printing from iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch). PaperCut's AirPrint support enables printing to all your PaperCut managed printers across your enterprise. As well as enabling printing, the PaperCut iPad App also provides the rich functionality desktop users are used to, such as authentication, balance display and selecting / charging to shared accounts when printing.

The PaperCut iPad App is able to be deployed / installed in a pre-configured form for your network via a simple URL.

PaperCut's AirPrint support works by providing two key parts:

At the time of writing there is no built-in option provided by Apple to print from an iOS device to server shared print queues. PaperCut enables existing technologies built into Mac OS (such as Bonjour/mDNS) to expose PaperCut managed server shared print queues over AirPrint. Some printers include built-in support for AirPrint (for printing direct from iOS devices to the printer), however the nature of print control/accounting requires that print jobs are intercepted by a central server. Additionally, most organizations want to leverage their existing print infrastructure rather than change it. PaperCut's solution for AirPrint will allow this.