Hello Paul, Thank you for a most excellent tip. This will greatly benefit those, like me, who do not have an Apple approved air-printer.
Most Sincerely, Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:18 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: something to share: air print activator Hi listers, I'm glad I can share something back, now that I received so much good help over time from this list. You can print from your iphone. I think you will have seen this already. You sometimes find an action button, for example while viewing a document from within mail etc, and then you have the print button. However, this does not work with normal printers, except with eleven or so dedicated models, because of an Apple restriction. Well, no more. Yesterday I printed off several documents from my phone, to a normal, non supported airprint printer. And it works like a charm. What you need is an iphone, a mac, and a printer attached to the mac. As long as you share the printer on your mac, the iphone can see it if you want. There's a program for Lion and sn, called airprint activator. Just google it. If you happen to find airprint hactivator, so with an h at the start, then that is the older version and there is a newer one out there, without the h, called airprint activator, with an ay, as in alpha, at the start. This little utility is free, and it does not want to alter system files in any way, so installing it won't ask your admin password on the mac. It only adds one or 2 lines to some config file, I forgot where that is, but it is documented if you're curious. Once you find airprint activator on google, download it. You will then have a dmg. You don't need to copy stuff out of there. Just open the dmg, set it to list mode if yu want, and then run the airprint activator installer app. Then close your disk image, and eject it from your desktop. >From now on, you will have a new item inside system preferences for airprinting. What I did not do right the first time, was enable AirPrint activation. It's 2 labels with a toggle button in between. From what follows later on the screen, you can see if this switch is then on or off. Once you turn the switch to on, it works. If you have not already done so, share your printer. It will then appear in a grayed out table inside the preference pane for airprint activator, so you know which printer is being advertised on your local lan wifi. The table of advertised printers is gray because the utility itself decides if you have your printer shared correctly. If so, it appears in the table. If not, then sharing is the problem. So you cannot add or delete printers from the airprin utility yourself. Now to print from your phone, leave your mac running and have your printer turned on. From the phone, find a print button for some document. Hit it, and a new little dialog comes up, where the first button lets you choose to which printer to print. Double tap it and choose your, mac connected shared printer on the phone. You will return to the print dialog in the phone, where ok will send the document over wifi to your shared mac printer. Not a revolution, but handy to know and have. I donated immediately after I found the program to work so well. In our household, it is a much appreciated little tool. Hth, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
