Hi Mickey,
You said “which printer or print utility”. If you are actually considering a new printer and think you would want to print from your iDevice I personally would consider nothing but an Airprint enabled printer. There are many to choose from and unless you are looking to get a $39 or $49 printer I think you have a good selection and if the printer has Airprint there is no need for any app or extra device. The device Neil described does sound good for those who have an older higher end printer, but for $100 you can buy a basic HP airprint enabled printer or at least it wouldn’t be much more than that. Keep in mind that many if not all of the apps which allow you to print to a non-airprint enabled printer require you to also install an application on your computer and that your computer has to be on to print. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mickey Quenzer Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ever wanted to print to your printer, without an AirPrint printer? Thanks everybody for this thread. I really appreciate it as I am trying to make a decision about which printer or print utility to buy. so I appreciate this help very much! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:40 AM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: True, but if the app costs $10 you can print from 10 devices before you start to run overage in cost. The hardware gadget sounds nice, but if a paid app will do the job for 5 or 10 per sent of the cost of the hardware gadget, then that's the rout most people will go for home use. For office use where you have say 50 plus ios devices the gadget is a better bet over a 5 or 10 dollar app, depending on apple volume licencing. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-02-11, at 4:35 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]> wrote: Sherry, The issue with an iOS app to do this is that it means all using your printer need the app. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 10 Feb 2013, at 20:05, Sherrie <[email protected]> wrote: I have an HP office jet wireless printer on my home network. I downloaded an app called Printer Pro. I downloaded the free version to see if it would work. It located the printer and printed a test page from the phone. To use it as a regular printer you have to buy the paid version which is $4.99, I think. I didn’t do it yet since I don’t write many documents on my phone that would need printing. I also experimented with two different HP printing apps and neither discovered my HP printer. Go figure. Just for the record the wireless printer is in a different room from the router. Sherrie So Printer Pro might just be a much less expensive option for wireless printing. From: Neil Barnfather - TalkNav Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ever wanted to print to your printer, without an AirPrint printer? Keith, No, your printer if it is either physically using ether net, or wirelessly using WiFi connected to your network stays as it is. You do not connect the X-Print Server to your printer at all… You only connect a USB printer to the X-Print Server, not a network enabled one. You would connect the single ether net socket on the X-Print Server to your router, the iOS device prints to the X-Print Server, which appears to your device as the name of your printer. The X-Print Server pushes the print job then over the network to the printer itself. does that make sense? Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 9 Feb 2013, at 23:07, "Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D." <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Neil. Sounds great. How do you think this situation would set-up? I have a network associated printer, but it is a wireless connection and the printer is in a different room from my router. I can't get my brain around the set-up, as I understood the Ethernet needs to link to both the router and the printer. Thanks, Keith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Barnfather - TalkNav Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Ever wanted to print to your printer, without an AirPrint printer? Hi All, I'm sure there are many of you out there who wish you could easily print to your printers direct from your iOS devices, but, you lack an AirPrint printer. I've been in this position since Apple released AirPrint enabled printers, having a large HP laser office grade printer here, there was no way I was shelling out hundreds of pounds to buy a new printer just for that feature. No matter how much I knew it would be of use etc. Anyway, I thought I'd share with you all a fantastic little device I bought a month ago now which has solved everything for me. Its called X-Print Server and comes in two flavours, home and office edition. I bought the Home edition as I only have the one printer here, but, do bear in mind that the home version will do more than one printer. The device itself is very small, about a third of the size of an iPHone, has a USB slot and an ether net socket on it. Plus a mains socket for providing power. The beauty of this device is its complete simplicity. Plug in the ether net lead and power if you have a network connected printer, if you only have a USB one, plug in the ether net,, power and USB lead to your printer. The ether net connects to your switch or internet connection providers hub. Now this device auto discovers printers on the network, then downloads the latest drivers for them and that's it, once this initial fully automatic operation completes, took about a minute for me, your printer will appear within the print options when you press print on your iOS devices. This worked a complete charm for me, my HP CM2320 MFP FXI appeared instantly on all my iOS devices and printing works exactly as you'd hope. A few things to bear in mind, you may wish to assign your network printer a static IP if you are using a network printer, as that will avoid any issues down the road if your printer changes IP for whatever reason. I cannot rate this product more highly, and its better still folks. The home edition model is US$99, I live in the UK and got my shipping free of charge, how, by using the below promotion code. This code is good for mainland US and Canada so the store states, however, when I was at the check out stage, I typed it in, free shipping land option appeared, I did not change the pull down to any of the international options, just left it as land US and continued. Even though at that stage the cart system knew I was in the UK, it did not charge, nor did the company contact me to charge more for shipping. So I got my unit for the equivalent of £54. The promotion code to use is: TWIT and credit to this code goes to the wonderful TWIT podcast network offering a high quality range of technology related podcasts for all flavours of tech fan. If you'd like to know more visit: www.xprintserver.com Hope this helps some of you out there. Regards. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. 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