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ios5 killed printing by Print and Share

New iPad2 owner, planning to travel and work using my iPad. I added the Pages and Print & Share apps for my word processing and everything was working fine. Upgraded to ios5 and can no longer print. Contacted the Print & Share vendor thinking they were not quite up to date, discovered that Apple has removed the ability for external apps to print documents!!! Really!! I not only don't have an AirPrint printer at home but consider it very unlikely that I will have one available as I travel. The only work around I can think of is emailing all my documents to myself and then printing them from the app via their email function. What a ridiculous prospect. Work processing docs or PDFs need to be printed, it is insane to assume that everyone in the world will have an aipprint enabled printer!

Any other ideas how to make this work?

iPad 2

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 11:17 AM

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Jan 31, 2012 6:13 AM in response to lindavview

I tried this last night and got it working with iOS 5 just like it used to!!

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1293865

Fedosa91

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Feb 5, 2012 7:47 AM in response to Mcklintoc

I can't thank you enough for posting the link. I was finally able to use the information yesterday and I too am able to print like I used to from my iPad. Hope more people take advantage of this.

Fedosa91

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Feb 5, 2012 8:16 AM in response to sashelby

I appreciate your advice about the Save2PDF app for the iOS5 printing "problems" as well as the commiseration for the plight of all Apple users. Ever since a problem with Apple products touched me personally I never paid much attention to the company itself. In the past week I have certainly got an eye as well as an earfull of user complaints. I intended to get an iPhone in the near future but I'm not quite so interested now.

Through my search and discovery readings this week I learned about the iBook2 app/upgrade specifically intended to read text books. How many AirPrint printers do you think college students will purchase?

Thanks again for your printing advice as well as McKlintocs. Between the two of you I have some printing options.

ios5 killed printing by Print and Share