Printing with iPad

[brianjor]

Good morning ... We have a MacBook pro wirelessly connected to an airport extreme router. We have an HP5610 connected USB to the router. The notebook prints fine through this router. I now have the new iPad and am wondering how to get it to print through this router to the HP printer. Can anyone help?

Brian

 

[leelai]

Hi and welcome to the Forum!

Have a look at this thread for your printing needs.
http://www.ipadforums.net/airprint/51885-printing-ipad.html

The IPad Forum is a community of members from all walks of life and from all over the world coming together to share our experiences and to help each other learn about this wonderful piece of technology the Ipad. There is a wealth of information already here in the many threads we have so doing some searches will answer most of the questions you have. If then you cannot find the answer you are seeking then by all means post your question. There are many friendly and informed members here only too willing to help you.

We also have our own App - It is a very simple app to navigate.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discussion-forum-for-ipad/id412896524?mt=8
Reading the IPad manual is a great place to start so please download a copy of these.
http://www.support.apple.com/manuals/ipad/
2 very informative threads from which you will learn many tips and shortcuts for the IPad.
http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-general-discussions/21590-tips-tricks-those-us-who-dont-know.html
http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/49581-ios5-tips-tricks.html
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[giradman]

Hi Brian - welcome to the forum!

An easy solution would be a printer that is enabled w/ Apple's AirPrint - HP has many but your model number does not seem to be on the list (Check HERE).

I have 2 printers (Brother laser & Canon MF inkjet) w/ USB connections to my desktop computer; there are a number of applications that 'mimic' AirPrint - the one that I use is called FingerPrint (Info HERE) by Collobos - cost is $10 and requires downloading a small program to your computer (i.e. nothing needed on the iPad) - works fine for me; check their website for more details, if interested.

I'm sure others will 'chime in' w/ their own suggestions and solutions - good luck!

 

[brianjor]

Thank you for your replies. Our family is very quickly leaving the PC world behind and we are buying more and more Apple products the problem I face now is interfacing them. The MacBook Pro the extreme and the HP printer works seamlessly. It seems to me that the iPad since it sees the extreme should also see the printer and print. Do you think this is something that I should call Apple about directly.