Bonjour Printer list

When a printer is being shared by another Mac then you will see this displayed as printername@computername.

Some printers can also advertise themselves on the network using Bonjour. They will appear as simply printername.

I have not seen a Bonjour name with the number 2. I thought it may appear when a printer is being shared by a Mac while also being connected to the network using its own internal wireless. But I just tested this and there was no printer name displayed with a 2 after the computer name. Maybe if there were multiple Mac's sharing the same printer then you may see the number?

If anyone on the network elects to share a printer, this is the result. It is rather annoying in a large office environment. I think that it results from the fact that when you add a printer, Apple thinks the default setting should be to share the printer. If you go to each computer on the network and turn off printer sharing, the list will clean itself up.

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PAHU,
I am trying to get my iPad to print using Printopia with my office iMac (it is part of a large internal Ethernet/wireless network with several AirPort and Cisco routers in the system), which is hard wired to my Brother MFC-7340. The printer (along with several others) is showing up in the Printopia printer choice dialog box, but I cannot get the iPad to find any printers. (Printopia worked great on my home system, which has it installed on both my wife's MacBook--wirelessly connected to the printer through Airport Extreme, and my iMac, hardwired to the Airport Extreme router.)

The Printopia FAQs page says to make sure the network both the iPad and the computer are using is Bonjour capable. How do I find that information out? kelly

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Hi there,

I don't have an iPad so I cannot tell you what you need to check. Personally I would expect that there would be nothing relating to Bonjour that you would need to enable in the iPad. It would just be a matter of ensuring that the iPad was on the same subnet as the iMac. If the iPad menus are similar to my iPhone then I would expect you can open Settings > General > Network > WiFi. If you select the wireless Network name and then click the Blue arrow to the right. This will show what network settings your iPad is using so you can then compare this to the iMac.

Thanks lots. I have checked, it is still showing the two are on the same wireless network, but cannot get the printers to show up in the arrow menu on my iPad. It says, No Printers Found. The Printopia software people said to make sure Bonjour was enabled, but I don't have any way of confirming that.

It is hard to reconcile publicity with operation.

My iPad does not "see" my print server, but "ePrint" (app) sees the Bonjour name but will not print.

I can configure ePrint using IP address but ePrint is very limited and not integrated into iOS.

It may be that the marketing folks have limited the iPad's printing only to "AirPrint" compatible printers.

Seems "cheesy" and I would welcome a real solution.

Check Bonjour status of the printers/network printer ports.