Wow, Air-print is great. Would be even better if it actually printed...

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Wow, Air-print is great. Would be even better if it actually printed...

I just installed an Epson Stylus NX420 Series that I got with the Macbook Air I bought less than a week ago. Today, I intalled it, and tested wirelessly it with my iMac 27in Quad core. It printed without any problems.

So I went to test it with my iPad 32 Gb, running the brand new iOS4.2 with the well publicized air print. And I got...nothing. The IPad cannot find the printer Apple provided me with the Macbook Air. I thought maybe it is because my iPad is on the 5 GHz network. So I put it on the 2.4 Ghz network. Same result.

So what gives? According to Apple's own words, printing from the iPad should be an easy, painless experience. Did they test that feature before releasing it? Is there a solution to print wirelesly from my iPad to my new printer??

Thanks for any help!!!

iMac Quadcore i5 27in, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Nov 25, 2010 1:05 PM

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Answer 1

captfred

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Nov 25, 2010 1:25 PM in response to primitivx

Primitivx,

The first iteration of Airprint only supports a handfull of printers, see attached.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356

Regards

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Jun 24, 2011 5:34 PM in response to primitivx

Hi, I know this post is old, but I think you should try the following app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/print-n-share-for-advanced/id301656026?mt=8

Probably should have been the way Apple made Airprint in the beginning, but no matter... someone figured it out and it works great!

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deggie

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Jun 24, 2011 6:28 PM in response to smileyman

Apple was indeed going to do that but during the last build before the release of Snow Leopard coinciding with AirPrint the code was pulled due to a patent troll company. If you have a Mac there is a manual way to put the code back in or you can use Hacktivator. There us also a means to do so in windows.

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