Mobile printing solutions for iPad

We are also trying to equip our sales personel in the field with ipads and a printer. This seems like a simple idea but have yet to find a simple solution or a solution at all. Please help!!!!

Here are several options for you. There are more just look for Portable Bluetooth Printers.

http://www.bluetoothprinters.net/ipad-printer/

Take a look at this app http://itunes.apple.com/app/printer-pro/id393313223?mt=8

Hope this helps.

looking to do the same thing.

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread/

HP offers something called mobile printing solutions.

apparently at Kinkos and other selected locations, a person can send thier docs to be printed rom thie i pad.

i downloaded the HP mobile printing app, but the local Kinkos is some distance away, so i have not yet tried it.

Bersides, there would be a cost per page. for printing.

sending e mail attachments to companies with printing capabilities i have tried.

Staples offers this serivce, but I sent some docs and they had to be adjusted and modified by the Staples printing department to enable correct printing on a page, so that particular abenue may be out.

( i made the document using Noteworthy app and sent it to Dropbox and sent the resulting PDF from dropbox to Staples, who printed the test, but told me it requireed page modification..

I have no idea why as the page i had worked up into a PDF had a standard word processing format.

Thanks for all who contribute their time and experience in these forums

neophyte

There is a way ... I've been happily printing for a while from my iPad to my battery-operated HP H470 with absolutely no wires (and no router / pre-existing WiFi connection - it operates in AdHoc mode). Literally just the iPad and the H470 - in fact, one time in a marquee in the middle of a muddy field with no power and a long way from the nearest WiFi connection, so it can be done from literally anywhere.

I also couldn't find any info on a true mobile printing solution for iPad (or iPhone/iPod for that matter) but felt sure it must be possible, somehow - so once I'd sorted it all out, I wrote down the solution and the steps to get it to work in the hope of helping others:

http://genuinely-original.blogspot.com/search/label/iPad Printing

Hope that's useful to someone!

Thanks,

Keith

Hi,

Sorry to have to contact you to cast your mind back to this printing issue with a HP470 printer, however, what WiFi adapter did you use?

Was it the HP one?

I purchased one but it is not recognised by the printer.

Thanks in advance

AMIT.....

Found a solution. An HP 5514 printer, used with a Sierra wireless MIFI device and an I pad, prints perfectly, wirelessly

Neo

There is a way ... I've been happily printing for a while from my iPad to my battery-operated HP H470 with absolutely no wires (and no router / pre-existing WiFi connection - it operates in AdHoc mode). Literally just the iPad and the H470

I did not see the HP H470 listed as an airprinter in Apple list.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4356

I do not see a Wifi connection on the hp site for the HP H470.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01181807&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en &product=3434455#N1767

What am I missing?

Robert

Robert,

Judging by what I've found, they sold a wireless adapter for the printer.

You could roll your own airprint server that will work with any printer

provided you have the Linux print drivers for it

cups has had airprint support for quite a while now

if your going to use it for printing in the field you'd probably want to setup the wifi in adhoc mode

raspberry pi + wifi

configure cups

http://blog.snapdragon.cc/use-your-raspberry-pi-to-print-using-your-ipad-or-ipho ne/

I found a way to set up a mobile printer to work with iPad, but it requires you have an iPad with the mobile hotspot feature. I've created a parts list and a youtube video to help you get it set up. They can be found here:

http://makethisstuffwork.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-to-set-up-mobile-printer-to-wo rk.html

use the app called mobi print and they have several certified bluetooth printers that will work. It will print any webpage or PDF, or image.

HP makes a product now that allows their mobile printers to work with the iPad. Here is a video describing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zVfCpT4X84