AirPrint with USB Printer iPhone setup

Apple is very serious about the "Air" in "AirPrint". Your printer......assuming it is AirPrint compatible......will work over WiFi, but Apple does not fully support AirPrint over USB.

If you really do want to print over USB, then you'll need to try a third party app like Printopia, which must be installed on your Mac. There is a free trial, so you will know in short order whether or not this will work for you.More info here:

Printopia - Print from your iPad or iPhone - Decisive Tactics, Inc.www.decisivetactics.com › products › printopia

Keep in mind that only the print function will be supported in this type of setup if you have a multifunction device. Other advanced features like Copy, Scan, Maintenance etc. will not be supported.

It's your call, but things would probably be a lot easier if you connect the printer over WiFi.

AirPrint is a technology that does not require downloading and installing drivers. The following article contains a list of AirPrint-enabled printers. Unfortunately, the Epson Stylus SX435 is not an AirPrint printer.

About AirPrint - Apple Support

Even if the Stylus SX435 had been an AirPrint printer, it looks like a note in the article Use AirPrint to print from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support would have ruled out AirPrint via a USB connection to an AirPort base station:

* AirPrint works with Wi-Fi or wired network connections. AirPrint devices connected to the USB port of an Apple AirPort Base Station or AirPort Time Capsule, or to your computer using Bluetooth connection, can’t use AirPrint.

A totally different and special matter is that a few USB devices apparently are supported in connection with Mac computers (see USB-only devices in the About AirPrint article).

Thus, the logical solution for a non-AirPrint SX435 seems to be either a third-party app on your computer, as Bob Timmons suggested, or Epson's iPrint app on the iPhone.

Understood your question, but you may not have understood my answer.

If you want to be able to print from an iOS device, try Printopia or another app that claims to work. Printopia is free to try. If it works..... then you can decide whether to buy.

I can't find any other free apps that do what you want to do, and Apple will never provide you with the software, so you are going to have to install something on your iOS device, and it won't be from Apple.

For what it's worth, this works for me with an AirPort Express and an old Canon USB printer that is not even wireless capable.

Good luck.

If you do not want to use another app, then you won't be able to print from your iOS device. It's that simple. Maybe not the answer that you were looking for, but that is the way it is.

You have two options at this point:

1) Use another app

2) Don't print from the iOS device

Printopia prints from all apps that I've tried for me. I don't know about you.

You already know the answer. iOS is different than the Mac operating system.

You have your options. I will not respond again.

Call Apple to complain.

As I stated previously.......

You have two options at this point:

1) Use another app...or...

2) Don't print from the iOS device

If AirPrint would not work from my MacBook (with my Epson + AirPort Express) I would not do big deal because of this - but it WORKS.

The Mac is not using AirPrint to the Epson printer.. even if it is showing as AirPrint. This is what makes it confusing.

There is no way you can AirPrint to a printer that does not support it.. the Express is NOT an AirPrint Print Server. It is a Print Server where the drivers must be used on your computer or device. Even if the drivers are generic.

The reason airplay works is that is a function of the Express. It is an Airplay device and serves the network.

The reason AirPrint does not work is the Express is NOT an AirPrint device.. that is a function of the printer. It is merely a print server. Apple never included AirPrint in the airport routers.. although it could have done so. Other manufacturers have managed this marvel.

https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/AirPrint/AirPrint_UM_EN.pdf

Since Apple never included AirPrint App to support a non-airprint printer.. neither your Mac nor any other device on the network is using AirPrint.