Printopia recreates that concept, of printing to different file formats on your Mac, from your iOS device.
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That’s when you use the Print dialog on your box not to print a hard copy, but to “print”-and note that I’m saying the word “print” with quotation marks around it-to a PDF document that you can then email off to someone, or save, or whatever you need. You may be familiar with the notion of “Printing to PDF” on your Mac. The sole requirement is that the Mac on which you installed Printopia needs to be powered on in order for your iOS devices to see the printers.īut as I alluded to before, making your printers AirPrint-ready is at best half of the joy of using Printopia. Tap the Print button, and those printers you checked in Printopia will appear as available options for printing. Go back to your iPhone or iPad and find a document you’d like to print. Make sure the printers you want your iOS device to be able to see are checked-and your setup is complete. That might include printers connected via USB, or printers plugged into an AirPort base station that your Mac also connects to. The preference pane should find all the printers your Mac can print to. Printopia installs as a Preference Pane inside System Preferences on your Mac. Once you fall in love with Printopia like I did, it costs twenty bucks to own.
What’s proved even more important to me in my daily use is that Printopia can print to files on your Mac, too-but we’ll get to that in a bit.ĭownload a free trial of Printopia from Ecamm’s website, which we’ll include in the show notes.
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Mac: Download and install Printopia, Printopia has a free trial for X days, but costs $20 after the free trial, while not free, it will allow you to print to printers shared to that Mac if there is not a printer directly connected to it, the PC software doesn't work with shared printers, after Printopia is installed, it will show up in System Preferences (Apple Logo>System Preferences.If your Mac can print to a printer, Printopia can enable your iOS device to do so, too. In order to print from the iPhone to a non-Airprint-capable printer, you will need either a Mac running OS X Leopard or above or a PC running at least Windows XP (Windows 2000 may be compatible, not sure, anything Windows ME and earlier is not compatible), (It may work on Linux, but there is no Linux Airprint software, so the Windows software will have to be ran under Wine)
If you do not have one of the printers listed above, you will have to connect through a computer in order to connect to the printer, even if it is a wireless printer HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw Color Multifunction Printer HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fn Color Multifunction Printer HP LaserJet Pro M1536dnf Multifunction Printer HP Photosmart Wireless e-AiO (B110)-Europe and Asia-Pacific It depends on what kind of printer you have, like kaebfly said, you have to have one of the eligible HP printers that support Airprint printing in order to print directly to the printer, which are the following
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Can anyone tell me how to set up my printer to the phone.
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