Hello All, I just saw this dedicated AirPrint daughter board, so I thought I would repost some info I found on network printing with the iPad. I hope it helps. I trolling over at ModMyI, and came across this post from one of their members. My boss has been going buggy because he can't print from his iPad, so I've been keeping an eye out. Now, I'm not tech head, but if I follow this right, you can print to all networked printer this way from you iPad. Mac users go here: High Caffeine Content: Return AirPrint sharing to Mac OS X v10.6.5 or AirPrint Hacktivator Netputing Win Users go here: How to Install AirPrint to Enable Wireless Printing on Windows? | Jaxov The original post from ModMyI is here. Hacktivate AirPrint on Mac, Windows Shared Printers I hope this helps! I'll be using it when I get my iPad (22 days & counting!) Hal
Well, yes, provided you have a machine up and running. It would be nice to be able to print to a networked printer with nothing else booted up. I'm certainly not going to create the AirPrint folder on a server. Since the App Store sells wireless printing enabling software, it's clear the hooks exist in the OS and Apple has crippled it. Why? I don't know.
Probably legalities over drivers given how much litigation is currently going on. Overall impression is of a late holdup. Hopefully they'll get it sorted soon.
I think this will be a help to people (like me!) with older equipment and wireless home networks. The computer my printer is hooked up to is on all the time anyway.
It would be a help, but unfortunately, my Samsung printer shows up on iPad but doesn't receive any information when I try printing. With 4.2 GM and iTunes 10.1 beta it worked. Apple has me really pi**** here as I was bying their office apps exactly for the reason of printing from my iPad. Now I have an "Office" on my iPad and always have to sync with my PC. Pointless, as I'm running a full blown office suite anyways.
I went messing around with my HP D110 eprint printer and now I cant print from my PC or laptop,I can send an email to the eprint center and it prints but not direct from my printer or ipad. All I get is cant find printer or net work, however the status sheet from network test I print says everything is OK. It prints fine when I hook up the USB cable to the PC and laptop,however my cable is not long enough when I travel so I think a call to HP is in order.
Update to the above post. After a couple of hours of frustrating trouble shooting (which is almost useless,) I read a report that most Routers are the problem with the wireless hook-ups,so I read upon routers and did what they said would fix my problem and what do you know, my printer works fine and my Ipad finds my printer and prints.,my room is full of sheets of paper after trying all my programs to see if they would print. make sure you hold down the button for 30 seconds or disconnect the power from the wall. Hope this will help you all out
Instead of fretting about airprinting and all that entails, why not just get a piece of software that will allow you to print seamlessly from you ipad or iPhone. I use Printopia. No extra steps to print. just select the action icon, select your printer and finally select Print. It easy as pie. Also the is another piece of software that will work almost the same way. It's called FingerPrint. They both worked great. I was able to print on a network laser printer and also my color inject that is connected via USB to my iMac.
Jim, how are those apps working? I bought an app for that recently, and the next best thing this app could do for me was sending my pages document via e-mail. I'd need something similar to the apple airprint function. Open document -> select print -> chose printer -> print. Is there an app that doesn't need any client software on a running PC? I have a win7 laptop that is running connectify. So it's actually acting like a hotspot. I have my samsung all in one color laser hooked up via USB. But I'll also look up the description of the apps you mentioned. I just checked printopia, but couldn't see if it works with windows...
