List of Printers for iPad wireless printing

Okay, now that you have ranted about this a bit...

Apple created AirPrint and placed it into the public domain prior to its release. Any printer manufacturer is free to build a compatible technology using Airprint. Any of them.

To date the only company that has taken advantage of it is HP. I generally prefer Canon printers and wrote to them to ask if they were going to adopt it. They sent back a beaureaucratic-speak reply. So for the first time in quite a while I purchased an AirPrint compatible HP printer. Works great with my iPad.

Prior to this I also used a change in my OS on my MacPro (which is on all the time) and printed via AirPrint in that matter. There are also 3rd party apps that let you print.

So if you don't have an HP Airprint printer and you want to complain about it complain to whoever made your printer. I agree it is total BS on their part that they have not made any AirPrint compatible printers.

As far as the rest of your rant it is pretty much full of BS so I won't go into that.

I think you miss the point...

Apple is missing an opportunity. Either they're proactive and fully enable their computing platforms to enable their customers to make productive use of their products or not. Submitting AirPrint for public comment or to somehow wait for manufacturers to come into compliance is lazy and fairly arrogant. I suspect the real reason HP is compliant and no other MFGs are has something to do with greenbacks and not innovation. Print drivers for nearly every conceivable printer on the market is already available to the MacOS, therefore it is inconceivable that Apple engineers couldn't find any possible solution in order to integrate those print drivers into the iOS platform. If you believe that their hands were tied, I have a lovely bridge to sell you. My point was that so many people complain but do nothing about it. I like my iPad but the printing quirk irks me. "Buy an app." That's hardly a solution worth spitting on. Print drivers by and large are open source. I don't think Apple's neglect of other MFGs has anything to do with code compliance and everything to do with kickbacks. If Apple's mandate is to lead the market, they should try to do just that. From a marketing perspective, they could find the iPad begin to lose market share to Android tablet devices that are just a bit more productive without the necessity to buy apps (which I'll point out exclude full printing functionality and require web browsing within that app, opening security risks and/or eliminating the user's ability to navigate to SSL content that he/she may want to print). Apple is screwing itself by not listening to its users. Users are screwing themselves by not demanding a bit more from these lovely devices.

Bobhog-

What you are saying in your rant, is that the iPad is not a computer. You seem to want Apple to make it into one. Obviously you don't consider a standard universal printing method to be a worthwhile advancement in technology.

The next generation of laptop might be a MacBook Air with a touch screen, which might exceed all your wants. The new Airs are due out this month, but will probably have about the same technology as last year's models. Maybe next year there will be an iPad Air.

Fred

No, I didn't miss the point at all. I'm just into facts and not obscure conspiracy theories. I'm also not a birther or a truther.

All this conjecture about backroom deals, greenbacks, etc. is just hogwash.

HP had a headstart due to the fact they had already come up with ePrint, which moves much of the information needed (fonts, programming, etc.) from the computer to the printer, so it was easier for them to adopt the OPEN SOURCE AirPrint compatibility into their printers.

As to printer drivers, unless you are using Gutenberg drivers they are definitely not open source, you have to wait for one from the printer manufacturer. And if they decide to stop producing one for your printer/computer (something that has happened to me more than once) you are just stuck. The other problem is the size of the printer driver and its associated data. Check on your computer and see how much space printer drivers take up on your computer. Not a big deal there, but if you have an 8 GB iPhone do you want more than half of that taken up with printer drivers? And if you go to some other facility and they are using a different printer then you have to download yet another printer driver to your iOS device. Not connected to the internet? Too bad. Is the file > 20 MB? You need WiFi and not 3G.

IF other printer manufacturers adopted AirPrint (and actually Android could also use it) then no matter where you went and what kind of printer you encountered if it was AirPrint compatible you could print to it without downloading a driver, or fonts, or any of that. AirPrint has been out less than a year it wild obviously take time to be adopted, assuming other printer manufacturers do so. It is a new paradigm, it won't work overnight.

As to the rest of your tripe, not worth responding to.

deggie wrote:

No, I didn't miss the point at all. I'm just into facts and not obscure conspiracy theories. I'm also not a birther or a truther.

All this conjecture about backroom deals, greenbacks, etc. is just hogwash.

HP had a headstart due to the fact they had already come up with ePrint, which moves much of the information needed (fonts, programming, etc.) from the computer to the printer, so it was easier for them to adopt the OPEN SOURCE AirPrint compatibility into their printers.

As to printer drivers, unless you are using Gutenberg drivers they are definitely not open source, you have to wait for one from the printer manufacturer. And if they decide to stop producing one for your printer/computer (something that has happened to me more than once) you are just stuck. The other problem is the size of the printer driver and its associated data. Check on your computer and see how much space printer drivers take up on your computer. Not a big deal there, but if you have an 8 GB iPhone do you want more than half of that taken up with printer drivers? And if you go to some other facility and they are using a different printer then you have to download yet another printer driver to your iOS device. Not connected to the internet? Too bad. Is the file > 20 MB? You need WiFi and not 3G.

IF other printer manufacturers adopted AirPrint (and actually Android could also use it) then no matter where you went and what kind of printer you encountered if it was AirPrint compatible you could print to it without downloading a driver, or fonts, or any of that. AirPrint has been out less than a year it wild obviously take time to be adopted, assuming other printer manufacturers do so. It is a new paradigm, it won't work overnight.

As to the rest of your tripe, not worth responding to.

1> Print drivers are not generally large. In case where they are, we're talking about host based printers.

2> HP is not the only source of Airprint compatible printers.

3> Apple still only pimps HO printers for use with Airprint, and since many fanbois only accept Gospel strait from Steve, they believe this is accurate.

#3 certainly doesn't prove that Apple is colluding with HP, they may be merely incompetent.

On the slim chance that anyone is still reading this thread for information instead of {redacted}, the iOS: AirPrint 101 page lists compatible printers, updated 09/30/2011: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4356

Air Print compatible printers now include models from Canon, and Epson, as well as Hewlett Packard.

In addition to Apps such as Printopia, and free apps available from printer manufacturers, if you're using OS X 10.5.x or 10.6x, this free tweak of OS X may allow you to print to your current wireless printer through your Mac computer, as long as your computer is on and connected to your network: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2658720?threadID=2658720&tstart=0

That's helpful.

Looks like Apple is just slow to update their collateral:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/airprint.html

This page (as of 10/3/2011) still shows only HP printers.

Let me help with a new thing called a calendar. If you look at the date I made that post it was July 11, 2011. At that time only HP had released printers and no other printer manufacturers were even announcing plans for an Airprint printer. Now Epson and Canon have released their first Airprint devices.

Not all printer drivers are small (especially those that contain fonts) and are usually a printer driver package. While this is not a big deal usually on even a laptop with 250GB, it is a big deal on an iPhone with 8GB of storage. Hence Airprint.

As to your second point I am assuming you can now read the date on a post (I also didn't know the division winners and wild cards in baseball at that time).

To your 3rd point Apple didn't "pimp" for anybody (are you always this vulgar) and there is no collusion, incompetency or anything here.

And finally, "update their collateral"? Is this for a loan they are applying for?

ALL print drivers are small.

It's inherent to their nature.

The bloat that increases their size is primarily from pooly written installers.

I could help you out with a new thing called a dictionary, but you're from Texas, so you're probably immune.

Do they still have that big fence to keep the rednecks out of Mexico?

I went to hp website and the

HP Photosmart 5510 e-All-in-One listed for $99 if purchased from them has an instant $20 rebate.

Please give me a list of printer I can use with me Ipad3

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

Which of these have a continuous ink soultion?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.

Your question is several days old, and still unanswered here, so let me comment.

Post your question as a new topic, in this forum or in the iPad in the Enterprise forum.

'Add-on' posts to old questions seldom receive a prompt reply. (The first post in this thread was in January 2011)

Try asking your question in printer support forums for the printer manufacturer you would like to use.

I don't own nor have I used any CIS systems with any AirPrint printers, so this is an opinon based only on a bit of search engine activity. I won't recommend any of these, because I haven't used any of them.

You don't mention what you're printing. None of the more robust commercial-quality printers seem to provide AirPrint support at the moment. Add another couple-hundred-million AirPrint devices in the marketplace and that could begin to change. In other words, in another year or so.

There are a number of companies making aftermarket continuous ink systems for both personal and professional-quality printing systems. If you already have a specific printer in mind, that will make the search easier.

www.Inkproducts.com has several YouTube videos showing their systems in action. This is the first one I found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNBtRZ30R4

There are also paid iPad apps such as Printopia and others that enable AirPrint on a much wider variety of devices that the 'official' list. Some AirPrint-compatible solutions require that a PC or Mac remain 'awake' in order to print wirelessly across the network. I use a free app from my printer manufacturer, and an OS X tweak for my old LaserJet that's USB connected to my MacBook, so again, I won't recommend any specific print app.

thanks for putting a link to a complete list its very helpful