Hi Dane,

Airprint works with a variety of apps on your iPad, including Safari, Pages, 
Keynote, Numbers, iBooks (for PDF files -- not ePub), Instapaper, Evernote, 
Readdle Docs for iPad, Nebulous Notes (the note-taking app I posted about last 
week when it went free), Elements, and others.  HP has a list of Airprint 
compatible apps in PDF format that you can download, but it's somewhat old:

http://www.hp.com/sbso/printing/mac/list-airprint-compatible-apps.pdf

There are also some apps that are supposed to enable printing to non-Airprint 
printers.  I took a chance on an app called Print Agent Pro for iPad by 
Dar-Soft that has been see-sawing in price between the regular $5.99 and $2.99 
sale price over much of August and September.  This app lets me send text 
documents in my Dropbox app to Print Agent Pro, and then use the print dialogue 
within the Print Agent Pro app to send it to an Airprint compatible printer.

There may be better solutions, and Readdle's Printer Pro app is supposed to be 
very good.  (But I missed that sale.)  Here's the page listing Printer apps for 
the iPad from AppAdvice:

http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/printing

There's a free Lite version of Readdle's Printer app that people without 
Airprint compatible printers can use to  check out  whether their printers are 
supported. Readdle's Printer Pro also has the ability to print files from 
Dropbox, MobileMe, Google Docs and the photo gallery, and there's supposed to 
be a version for the iPhone, too.  You might want to look into that, for 
general iPad printing.

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther


On Sep 28, 2011, at 07:47, Dane Trethowan wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Yep, I managed to print an email from my in-box on my Ipad and the process 
> was dead easy, just select the Airplay compatible printer - in my case the HP 
> Officejet Pro 8500A Plus - make adjustments to number of copies, pages etc 
> and double-tap the "Print" button.
> 
> So now to the question, if I wanted to print a text document from my Ipad 
> which app could I use? As far as I'm aware Mail is the only app on the Ipad 
> which can use the Air Print facility, is this correct?
> 
> I did try to send a message to this list earlier on the same subject but I 
> don't think the message reached its target so sorry if I'm repeating myself 
> <smile>.
> 

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