Printing via Airprint and Airport Express

Ovito,

Although your printers are not AirPrint supported you should still be able to print from them. The summary of the Airport Express says any printer connected to the airport will be accesible from Macs and iDevices. If it is Airprint supported that means you wont need an airport to print wirelessly

angus51...Thanks for trying to help but your answer is wrong.

Please read the post were they say is not possible.

Only Macs can print but not idevices.

You canrefer to this post:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3951336?answerId=18386848022#18386848022

Angus51-

AirPrint is supported on an AirPrint printer connected to the network by WiFi or Ethernet. Connected to an AirPort Express USB port, it is "accessible" to computers that have drivers for the printer's native printing language, but it does NOT support AirPrint.

Fred

I just save any files from my iPhone to a print folder in my Dropbox and have my Automator workflow print it for me at home. If you know how to make Automator workflows, that's one way to print from your iDevice for free (just make sure the Automator workflow doesn't loop and print endlessly). Nice thing is that you can technically print files from any device that can save to Dropbox, but you just need a Mac on the same network as the printer to do the actual printing. Only problem is printing documents with margins outside the printing zone. pdf files will ignore and print, but Word docs will error out somewhere in the Automator process.

Im so disappointed at apple for this poor job. You buy this expensive device and unable to print via iPad ? What's the point? This is totally useless for me, everything you read let you think it would work with iOS, but No...

Apple should star pt listened to their customer and stop being so closed.

For all people reading before buying : you will not be able to AirPrint with airport and iOS...

Also you will not be able to access easily your USB drive ( no htfs btw) via iPad. ( pay for app )

I totally agree.

I had to spend this extra cash on the Xprint Server just to be able to do it. Even tho I concider my self litrate on computers..The seting up was a torture and I dont even have a complex set up at home.

The other solution will be to bego a head and follow their game which is to buy an hp printer with airprint capability.

What a shame.

Diego Jobs-

My complaint is that the only portable AirPrint printer available is monochrome using thermal paper! Otherwise, there is a LONG list of AirPrint printers available from most of the major printer companies. AirPrint does work with compatible printers, including via the Xprint Server.

By the way, how does the Xprint Server work for you? What printer(s) are you using it with? I sent an E-Mail to the company asking if it could be battery powered, but never received a reply.

Fred

The Xprinter works fine but I have some issues about alignment of the margins when the pages are printed. There are not perfectly centered. There was an obscure dialog on the Xprinter Settings somewhere using its browsers interface but I have not got the time to play with.

I am using a small brother lazer I got for about $130 two years ago. Now they have almost the same model with the airprint capability for about $200.

There are also other ways to print from an ios device but it requires third party apps which could be a bit combersome. I have not try them tho.

They dont have a battery powered version.

I wish apple would get more understanding about this issue.

I raised the AirPrint question with an Apple Customer Service over the 'phone (133 622 in Australia) prior to purchasing the an Air Port Extreme. The ability to turn any USB printer into and AirPrint printer was one of the reasons I bought the Air Port Extreme.

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Julian

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juliancilea wrote:

I cannot enter that webpage..

It works fine.

Wow, has it really been 5 years now? And printing via: "Device > AirportExpress/Extreme > USB Printer" STILL doesn't work?? This is pathetic.

Well there's a lot that needs to happen for printing to work. The printer must support at a minimum Line Printer Daemon Protocol (LPDP) AND Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) to use any router as a print station. After that, it's based on the device used. Macs are the easiest to setup since Bonjour sets it all up automatically, Windows computers and most non-Apple mobile devices can print to it but needs drivers and can be difficult to setup if you don't know how to manually add network printers, and Apple mobile devices require the printer to ALSO support the AirPrint Protocol (which many old printers or cheap printers don't support). So only Apple mobile devices are the complicated ones because of their AirPrint requirement. Why Apple doesn't allow installation of printer drivers to use only IPP and not AirPrint on their mobile devices, I don't know.

I am peeved at the misleading advice from an Apple Customer Service rep. but I'll keep the Air Port Extreme anyway.