Configure Wide Area Mobile Print

Wide Area Mobile Print is a highly flexible and powerful alternative to Apple’s multicast DNS Bonjour method of announcing printers to Apple iOS devices.
Wide Area Mobile Print uses Unicast DNS-SD, and announcing available printers in PMC to Apple iOS devices, can be achieved with extreme ease using the Wide Area Mobile Print feature combined with simple standard DNS records created on the DNS server. With Wide Area Mobile Print, AirPrint can be enabled across large and complex networks.

There is a built-in DNS server which must be reachable from mobile devices if you wish to use Wide Area Mobile Print.

The Wide Area Mobile Print configuration involves the following overall steps, explained in the following sections:

• Create one or more Wide Area Mobile Print sub domains in the Administrator Interface
• Configure the network DNS server
• Set search domain on mobile devices