would someone recommend a portable airprint printer to use with IPad2. Need something light weight for travel

I've yet to find one myself.

How to print from iPad to a portable printer wherever you are:

Issue: bluetooth portable printers cannot communicate or work with iPad.

Solution: only work-around but works for me...

1) app- PrintnShare Pro for iPad

2) mobile hotspot, e.g., Verizon MiFi or other

3) netbook e.g., Acer or other running windows and must use both Google Chrome browser & Google Cloud Print beta ---> assign your "classic printer" (no portable printers are "Air Print" or "e-print") in Google Chrome go to the wrench icon (top right), options, under-the-hood, and manage printers. You must let Google Cloud Print connector find your printer either hard wired to your pc on your network or via bluetooth.

your netbook is online via wifi; when you use Print n Share Pro, it will see the portable printer as available on the google cloud. Whatever you want to print, with this app running, you will be prompted to select "open in PrintnShare Pro". When you hit print, it goes to Google Cloud, then through your wifi on netbook (or laptop), then bluetooth from your netbook/laptop to your bluetooth portable printer. Voila. Netbook/laptop can be in your briefcase, unseen. Works seamlessly. Hit print on iPad, & goes right to your HP 100 mobile printer, HP 470 mobile printer, Canon iP100, etc. Good luck.

The HP H470 is one ... 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 did you ever find a workable solution?

Thank you

You can use a raspberrypi as a portable print server and power it from the pictbridge port of a battery powered printer, like the HP officejet 100 for example

You can use a zebra printer in adhoc mode to print labels/receipts. You also can use the imz320 in bluetooth mode and the app called mobi print to print PDF's or webpages in safari.