HP Laserjet CP1525nw and AirPrint

I just bought an HP Pro CP1525nw printer. Getting it to work via USB took me 5 min, getting it to work with AirPrint for my iPad and iPhone took 2-3 hours. Part of the problem is if you're running Lion. Below are the steps for anyone that may need help in the future:

When you get your printer out of the box, the CD that ships with it will not work with Lion, consider this a free drink coaster. Instead what I recommend is connect the printer to your Mac using the USB cable. It will discover the printer and ask to download the driver from the App Store, this is good, let it do it. After it's done your printer will now work via USB.

The next step go on HP's website and download the firmware update for the printer. This is a .dmg that you will execute and it will install the latest firmware for the printer. You can also do the firmware upgrade by going to the printer options under the apple icon in the top menu bar. It's important to run the firmware upgrade.

After I had done all this I ran into the problem of how do I change the SSID of the printer so it can get on my network. Unfortunately, you can't change it when connected via USB and using the HP drivers/utilities for Mac or Windows. You also can't change it via the little monochrome display on the printer itself. The only way you can change the SSID if you want to use AirPrint it to connect the printer via an Ethernet cable to your wireless router. Once you do this and reboot the printer it should display it's newly assigned IP address.

Go to this IP address via a browser window and in there online console you can change the default SSID and if your network uses WEP, you can add the WEP key there. Also, if your wireless router does MAC address filtering, make sure and add the printer's MAC address where appropriate. Once this has been set, turn off your printer, unplug the Ethernet cable and relocate the printer back to where you had originally wanted it and turn it back on. Then turn on the wireless and it should now be able to connect, it will get a new IP address and display it accordingly on the printer's display. At this point, once the blue light is solid on the front of the printer you should be able to find it via your iPad, iPhone, etc.

If you still can't print to it, it's probably because your wireless router isn't friendly with Bonjour and you just need to configure Bonjour support for local traffic.

Hope this help,

-Troy

1) Update your printer firmware (20110329) its enable airprint

2) Connect your printer to Mac and try to print, if its work, than you can print by airprint

3) Make shure that your printer and iOS device in the same wi-fi network

4) Switch off printer and iOS device

5) Turn on printer, then iOS device

6) Try to print 🙂

For me its work 🙂

p.s. you can switch on air mode on your iOS device and turn on only wi-fi, sometime 3G network couldnt help to find wi-fi printer.

Tim

It's possible to use free software (Virtualbox and Ubuntu) to fix the broken iOS 5 Airprint printing with non supported printers. Here's a fix that works on my imac, but should also work on even a windows pc.

My setup is a lion imac with 2 non-airprint supported usb printers attached, a belkin wifi router that provides network connectivity for my imac, ipad, and iphone.

Install ubuntu 11.10 in a virtualbox vm. Specify to use the "Bridged Adapter" with "en1: WiFi (AirPort)" for the network hardware. Make sure the imac's usb printers are setup with sharing. On ubuntu, select System Settings > Printers and add your imac's shared printers to the list. Then start ubuntu's firefox and set "localhost:631" in the address. On the administration tab, under the Server section, check "Share printers connected to this system" and hit Change Settings button to activate it. Go back to ubuntu's printer setup, and right click on each printer and check that the properties Policies tab does not have any messages about it being unshared. If so, then go back to firefox and make sure the Server sharing checkbox is enabled. It may help to reboot.

Fire up virtualbox to be able to use AirPort printing to your imac's usb printers, when you want to print from the iphone or ipad. This also works on iOS 5.

Only problem is error message from iphone to check the printer for errors, even though it actually prints ok.

Troy,

Followed the instructions you gave and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the detailed walk-through!

Paul

i am having the exact same issue

i have 2106 WLC and 1131ag access points, did you ever get it working ? i am sure that it has something to do with broadcast domains

i have the printer hard wired on the wireless vlan (we only use 802.1x) for wireless auth and the printer doesnt support it.

are there bonjour options inside of dhcp ? like an ip help address for out of vlan dhcp assignments?

mchenrytl wrote:

The only way you can change the SSID if you want to use AirPrint it to connect the printer via an Ethernet cable to your wireless router. Once you do this and reboot the printer it should display it's newly assigned IP address.

I was able to do this by connecting the printer to the Ethernet port on my Mac...I figure most people would rather do this than schlep a 40lb printer from their desk to a router 🙂