{"id":5624,"date":"2020-09-18T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2020-09-18T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:08:55","slug":"using-ibeacon-to-discover-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacon-to-discover-printers\/","title":{"rendered":"Using iBeacon to Discover Printers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Xerox has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/atyourservice.blogs.xerox.com\/2020\/09\/09\/ibeacon-for-airprint-on-altalink-printers\/\" target=\"_blank\">started using iBeacon<\/a> to allow AirPrint-enabled Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad or Mac, to discover nearby AltaLink\u00ae printers even when not on the same subnet as the printer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xeroxairprintusingibeacon-1024x543.png\" alt=\"Using iBeacon to Discover Printers\" class=\"wp-image-5626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xeroxairprintusingibeacon-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xeroxairprintusingibeacon-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xeroxairprintusingibeacon-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xeroxairprintusingibeacon-1200x636.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xeroxairprintusingibeacon.png 1528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a &#8216;Robo woman&#8217; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mW8tWDOe7lE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction Video for System Administrators<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mW8tWDOe7lE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction-1536x850.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction-1200x664.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ibeaconairprintintroduction.png 1572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This demonstrates an example of iBeacon being used to provide for a better customer experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xerox has started using iBeacon to allow AirPrint-enabled Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad or Mac, to discover nearby AltaLink\u00ae printers even when not on the same subnet as the printer. There&#8217;s a &#8216;Robo woman&#8217; Introduction Video for System Administrators: This demonstrates an example of iBeacon being used to provide for a better customer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacon-to-discover-printers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using iBeacon to Discover Printers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}