Recommended AirPrint printers?

Hi nerowolfe,

Consider this product from Lantronix:

http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/mobile-print-servers/xprintserver.html

Street price is $136 - not much different from an AirPrint printer, and you can use it with any printer on your network, wired or wireless, which means just about any printer ever built.

If you already have printers that you like, and you dislike the selection of disposable junk available today, it may be the best alternative.

Take a look at the HP 5510 which has excellent reviews and is on offer presently for £59 sterling. Not sure about the printing of DVDs/CD's.

"Printing" to CDs or DVDs is a function of your MBP. Not sure what a printer has to do with it.

I'm using an HP Deskjet 3050 j610 three-in-one. Pretty pleased with it, but have found that is works better with HP's app than directly through AirPrint. Caveat is that my printing needs are pretty light weight. YMMV.

... but have found that is works better with HP's app than directly through AirPrint.

The HP Deskjet 3050 J610 is not AirPrint compatible:

My iPad cannot find my HP AirPrint printer HP 3050 . We are on the same network

Wireless Printer Not Found by iPad3

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Mac-Printing-and-Scanning/My-iPad-2-does-not-find-m y-deskjet-3050-J610-series-wireless/m-p/1101407#M23846

http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/printers_multifunction/photo_all_in_ one_inkjet_printers/pixma_mg5320

I haven't used this printer myself, but one of my colleagues owns it and has used it in conjunction with an iPad2, briefly. Didn't give it a glowing review, but said it "did the job".

I like my epson 730. It does print on the CDs which is something I've only used one.

Works with airprint on my ipad 3. quite and effective.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Product.do?sku=C11CB18201&BV_UseBVCookie= yes#key-features

You're gonna find many of the capabilities that you're looking for in Photosmart series HP printers. Just make sure of the Airprint compatability. If its not there you can still use HP eprint which is a free app on the apple catalogue that will wirelessly print what you need to.

I prefer the better HP color Laserjet printers because they give better text and output than the cheaper inkjet printers. Yeah, you pay more, but you get more in return.

I've got an HP Color LaserJet Pro CP1525nw, which simply prints on paper. Great for everyday printing from my ipad or iphone. I also recently got an HP LaserJet Pro 100 color MFP M175nw, which includes color scanning and color copying in addition to color printing. The scan function is easy to use using the Image Capture applicaiton on my iMac. Both use Wifi and can print from the iPad or iPhone.

I think I own almost every apple product at this point and I have had great success with HP printers. I would recommend this guy for multifunctional tasks. I think it does most everything you're looking for.

HP 7510 Photosmart All in One

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005N3FMDE

I have an Epson RX 680 which I purchased solely for its ability to print on CDs and DVDs. I could not find anything else that would do that that was not a commercial version that was quite a bit more expensive. It does an adequate job, but I would love to find someting better. I am not that impressed with the printer generally. it does a terrible job on photos.

It does okay on printing black and whites and color documents, I would love to find something that works better at printing CDs and DVDs at a somewhat reasonable price.

Dave

I've been really impressed with my Brother printer. I got this before I even though about printing from my iPad and was happy to find it work seamlessly.