Best Software For Airprint Plus A Little

Even if your principle goal in following along with the tutorial was to get physical prints from your iOS device to the printer, the print to Dropbox and Open on My PC features are a pretty sweet bonus feature.

No problem, read on as we show you how to print to older printers.

Theres absolutely no reason to go out and buy a new printer when you can easily tweak your existing printer to support printing from your iOS device.

If youre lucky the manufacturer of your printer has released an iOS helper app that allows iOS to communicate with your printer even if you dont have a printer with native AirPrint support.

Were not going to focus on using the company-dependent apps in this tutorial but the apps are all free-as-in-beer and they might be just the solution you need.

Be forewarned that many of the apps are limited (Canons app, for example, only prints photos).

We tested several of the apps on various printers around the office and found them lacking in a variety of waysthe most obvious of which was the total lack of support for older wired printersand not quite the just-like-AirPrint solution we were looking for.

To that end we turned to a commercial (but inexpensive) solution.

In the time-equals-money equation the ten bucks youll drop on FingerPrint will have you coming out ahead.

The application comes with a 7-day free trial so you can take it for a spin before pulling your wallet out.

The only important choice you need to make while installing the application is which machine youre going to install it on.

Barring that, install it on the PC that is on the most and that has access to the printers you wish to use.

There are no tricky customization options in the initial installation process, just click Next until the process is complete.

You will need to reboot your computer to finalize the installation.

Youll see a simple interface displaying all the printers available to the machine.

Leaving them checked will simply clutter up the print menu on your iOS device with printers you dont need.

We trimmed it down to just a PDF printer and the primary office printer.

There is absolutely no configuration needed on the iOS device in order to access the printers.

Simply open a program with printing capabilities, such as Safari, to test out the print functionality.

Any application that can access AirPrint can access the printers on the host computer.

From Safari simply tap on the arrow button right next to the address bar like so.

You wont have to worry about that now, go ahead and click Print.

Best Software For Airprint Plus A Little

You should see all the printers available to your host PC plus a little bonus.

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