Print over Internet to printer at home

[Ancandis]

Hello,

My printer is at home connected to a Mac mini and I am at work. How do I send a document to my printer at home?

What do I need to set up? I've tried to add my printer using the "IP" in the "Print & Scan" pref panel. Typing my dyndns hostname won't reveal any printers.

Printer sharing is activated as well as "use dynamic global hostname".

Thanks for any hints.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

You could set up a VPN to tunnel into your home network - but a simpler solution is to use a service like Cloud Print.

 

[HMI]

It depends a bit on which printer you have, and how it is connected to your Internet or computer.

FreakinEurikan had good suggestions.

Something like HP's "e-print" works well. It changes a printer's IP into a custom and unique/anonymous email address that it can use to print with.

You can also use something like logmein to connect to and print from your mini while away. It's easy to setup and use.

You can also email yourself documents for later, or upload things to services like Dropbox if that helps you meet your needs.

Of course, it all depends on what your work will allow you to do, like "listen to the radio at a reasonable volume between 9 and 11".

 

[toad77]

If your printer is networked, you could try port forwarding port 9100 to the printer's IP address on the LAN.

 

[troy14]

Hello,

My printer is at home connected to a Mac mini and I am at work. How do I send a document to my printer at home?

What do I need to set up? I've tried to add my printer using the "IP" in the "Print & Scan" pref panel. Typing my dyndns hostname won't reveal any printers.

Printer sharing is activated as well as "use dynamic global hostname".

Thanks for any hints.

What make/model printer do you have?

Epsonconnect does it automatically if you have an Epson.

 

[Ancandis]

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

My printer is a Canon (connected to an airport express, but this shouldn't make a difference).

I'd like to use something like IP printing, so I just need to select the printer sitting at home and press "print".

My current solution is to
1) log in to my Mac using VNC to
2) open the document and
3) print it with my settings (page range, duplex, b/w, etc).
This works, but it's really cumbersome.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

I'd like to use something like IP printing, so I just need to select the printer sitting at home and press "print".

Not gonna happen without some 3rd party software. You need to do a VPN (which is complex to set up) or use a service like Cloud Print:

http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/howitworks.html