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Have fun printing a shipping label from your phone using Netcat.

Because Apple "owns" both CUPS and iPhones, you can print from an iPhone directly to a printer shared on a Linux machine if they are on the same network.

My wife (not technical) figured this out one day and I didn't believe her at first that this would all "just work".

Android hasn't needed any printer plugin to be manually installed for a while now. Since Oreo I believe.

I've printed from my phone to my pi CUPS server. Even Windows 10 understands IPP.

I have netcat in Termux. Not sure if I can access files though.

Give Termux storage permission and `cd /storage/emulated/0`.

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