I looked at the design guide, and it appears this is using IPP, meaning that MacOS support should be an easy addition. I got very excited about the announcement, but was disappointed to see it's windows OS only. In education, Macs are a huge installed base, and over 80% of our students have them despite no requirement by the college.
A few third party vendors (Papercut, YSoft) have announced that Microsoft has been working with them on the down-low for awhile - hopefully they have already started cooperating with Apple on this...
@Troy Phillips is right. At PaperCut we're working with Microsoft to support print management on Universal Print for all major client operating systems.
For existing PaperCut customers today, we do have a few options available to support macOS clients without local print servers.
If you reach out to our support team we'll be able to help work out the best solution for your Mac users until they're fully supported by Universal Print.
More platforms (MacOS, ChromeOS) would be definitely beneficial. However, IPP on Mac presents some challenges - this is not IPP Infra, just plain old IPP.
If you are interested in Cloud Print Management, YSoft SafeQ Cloud (shameless employer promo 😉 supports MacOS cloud printing (without any 3rd party clients) alongside Universal Print B-).
Mac would be nice, iOS is really essential though. MacOS at least you can manage and secure enough to add to the internal network, iOS especially BYOD most organizations are putting in a wifi SSID that's walled off - but AirPlay is not easily configured in large organizations, without building multi-NIC bridge boxes in every site that spans your firewall. Universal Print would neatly solve that by allowing print to internal print servers while only needing internet access not internal network.
We are a mix of Windows/MAC client systems. Support for MAC printing would go a long way to being able to consider moving our US printing infrastructure (maybe even global) to the cloud in Azure. The potential for reduced latency due to regional routing could be leveraged. Unfortunately, local resources and alternative vendors must be utilized instead.
I cant believe this does not have MAC OS support. Please rectify this immediately, nobody can actually implement this in a serious corporate environment if you Ignore MAC OS
Universal Print was released in March 2022. It is now November 2022 and it is still not "Universal" and only works on Windows. Therefore half of my employees are being excluded from the solution who use Macs. When is a fix coming?
Universal Print support needs to do a better job of supporting MFP devices. We are Kyocera TaskALFA users about to upgrade to a "Fully Qualified" Universal Print-capable device, but there's a lot of caveats - it doesn't work nicely with finishing equipment. And it doesn't work at all with MacOS. Is this some kind of a joke? Either make it cross-platform and truly capable, or remove "Universal" from the name.
