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Airprint iOS 8

I cannot airprint anymore on my Samsung printer with iOS 8

Posted on Sep 18, 2014 4:40 PM

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Posted on Sep 18, 2014 5:25 PM

Me either. AirPrint was working fine before the IOS 8 upgrade, now I can't print to any of the 3 printers that used to work.

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Sep 24, 2014 7:26 PM in response to Gtummond

I actually ended up doing a restart twice. The printing works fine now. But I have other little quirks going on with WiFi at times and apps crashing. Apple put out an IOS8.1 update that made things worst and then took it down. So they are working on the problems. Hopefully they will get us all up and running well, soon, for all of us.

Sep 24, 2014 8:15 PM in response to samfromquebec

For what it's worth, I can no longer AirPrint directly to my Samsung M2825dw from my iPad Air running iOS 8 (sometimes it prints a URC Error), but I can AirPrint to it from the same iPad but going through handyPrint on my Mac (handyPrint makes any printer AirPrint "compatible"). This makes me think that the problem lies with the AirPrint implementation on some printers not being exactly right and maybe iOS 8 is following specifications more tightly. By the way, I ran all the betas of iOS 8 and they all exhibited the same behavior which leads me to believe that it might not be a bug in iOS 8 itself.

Sep 26, 2014 4:01 AM in response to samfromquebec

I was really excited this morning when I heard that Apple has released 8.2 to fix the issues were experiencing.

After downloading, installing, powering off my pad and restarting twice (after the install was completed), clearing my network settings.


It's worse than before!!!!!!


Now when I print to my Dell printer, it causes the printer to restart. No output at all. And I keep getting these messaes poping up on my pad telling me that my printer is offline.


Does nobody at Apple actually use Apple products?

Sep 26, 2014 11:37 AM in response to samfromquebec

Extraordinarily frustrated by Apple (as usual). The simple act of logging into the forum and then accessing the page you were just on is enough to make me pull my hair out, so it's no surprise that the same company that runs this website would build faulty products. Anyway, I'm obviously not an Apple fanboy, but airprint was one of the only features I genuinely liked about iOS (way to continually deter me from your products, Apple). Furthermore, how was this not discovered and fixed during beta? Rant over.


I'm having much the same problem as all of you: updated to iOS 8 this morning on four iPads (not sure which model, don't care cause they're all exactly the same; ok, now rant over); now airprint doesn't work to the Dell B1260dn. We bought 4 of these printers for the sole purpose of airprint compatibility. I tried everything that has been suggested: reset the printers and the iPads, waited a while, tried again. I discovered I can print from notes just fine, but Safari will not print. Those are the only apps I've tried, and Safari is the only one that really matters (only app from which we print). The selective printing inclines me to believe this is some kind of driver issue; it has no problem printing a very simple ASCII job from notes, but it cannot handle the more complex safari jobs with lines and symbols. In my life as an IT person, I have come across a similar issue in the PC world; in that case, the wrong printer driver had been installed; it could print basic text jobs just fine, but anything more complex would cause problems. I don't know how airprint or iOS handle print drivers (or a lack thereof), but it looks like the exact same issue here. Unfortunately for us, if that is the case, then there's nothing we can do until Apple decides to solve the problem.

Sep 26, 2014 2:02 PM in response to MTtoy

I updated to the newest update 8.0.2 and everything is working fine or at least better than before. It still seems WiFi keeps going in and out. I notice the last two updates involved Dell printers. Did you guys check for a printer update? Mines an Hewlett-Packard (HP) printer and it's working the way it's supoose to now from all apps.

Sep 27, 2014 2:41 AM in response to jorikaup

I've tried everything - even a complete factory reset & restore - and I can't get AirPrint to work with my Samsung Xpress C460W. I think the iOS 8 Airprint bug is hitting Samsung users worse than other makes. Samsung also aren't helping: the latest firmware release was last May for my printer and nothing since: I phoned them I they told me to use their Samsung Print app - this is OK temporarily but I want AirPrint back. Apple's response so far is to possible amend the list of compatible AirPrint printers - so watch out over the next few days, the approved Apple list is likely to shrink!! It's one way to solve the problem, I suppose...

Sep 27, 2014 3:28 AM in response to NickCoote

DDo you subscribe to OSX DAILY TIPS? I have found them useful and reliable


they say re wifi and OS updates:

1: Reset iOS 8 Networking Settings

Resetting network settings is often the be-all-end-all advice for resolving many network performance issues and wi-fi related problems that pop up with iOS. The reason is quite simple; it dumps all settings, caches, DHCP info, and any other settings or custom data that has been set on the iPhone or iPad.

To reset your iOS 8 Network Settings, visit the Settings app, head to “General”, then to “Reset” and choose “Reset Network Settings”.

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