The application is hidden away on your Mac due to it being in the System Preference panel which I also really like. Overall Printopia is one of the most useful Applications you can download currently and it works brilliantly well with your iPad and iPhone. I have used a huge variety of printers and they all print out what I have told them to identically, so it is consistent one of my original worries. Information is sent from your iPhone and iPad very quickly through the Mac and to the printer of choice. Once you’ve ticked a printer you can start printing web pages, emails, notes, iWork documents ect. The interface to set all this up is literally just ticking the boxes of the printers you want to be shared, very very easy to use. The Application installs itself on your Mac within the System Preference panel and allows you to select which printers connected to your Mac (also lets you use network printers) to be usable from an iOS device. So we can now only print from our iPhone’s, iPod touch’s and iPad’s to selected printers which have wireless (walk up technology) printing onboard. Apple had the original intention to include this ability but decided to strip it from the final release of iOS 4.2. All we can do is ask and hope.You may or may not know that iOS 4.2 lacks the ability to print to a shared printer connected to your Mac. My point is that if even my Windows machines can see a USB printer attached to a Mac that is sharing a printer, my iPad should too! And this is a choice Apple makes, and one that I disagree with. There isn't even any interface on the public internet. Adding AirPrint Bonjour services to a Mac that is already actively successfully sharing on the network to Windows/Mac/Linux is not any kind of security issue. Sending customers to unsupported hacks to make things work is a risk of network security. Just in case it IS a bug, I filed a report.Ĥ. It's may be a missing feature not a bug in the eyes of Apple. A USB printer attached to a Mac that is providing sharing services should not require that the printer have such functionality.ģ. The printer should need the AirPrint Bonjour functionality if it stands alone. This is not hard and we've been doing this for years. It should not need more than a shared Mac that is already acting as a print server on the network that is currently serving (successfully) to macOS, Windows and Linux clients right now using Samba and CUPS. But soon we agree that this will not be possible.Ģ. Not quite true, you *can* buy brand new Airport Express, Extreme and Time Capsule devices right now. The design of iOS only supports AirPrint."Ĥ "Likely at the risk of network security."ġ. Anybody have any other ideas? Did I miss something?ġ "Apple has already exited the router business."Ģ "It is built in to iOS and needs to be built in to the printer as well."ģ "I don't believe it's viewed as a bug. ![]() I'm looking for a solution, I've filed a bug report with Apple. This just proves it's possible but that Apple themselves aren't interested in supporting. Maybe pay money for some commercial software. ![]() ![]() or- You have to install some unsupported, shady hack you find on the internet. You have to plug the printer into into an Airport Extreme over USB, a device on which Apple has let the hardware lag and is likely going to discontinue. These printers have internet-facing administration interfaces and have been used as malware vectors. You have to get a network "Airport" printer and connect over WiFi or ethernet and assume all the security risks involved by sticking an IoT device on your LAN. If you have a nice USB printer you can only share to another Mac, Windows or Linux computer, not an iDevice. 5 years later still an issue! I should not have to install 3rd party software to print to a shared printer on a Mac using the latest MacOS software (Sierra) using brand new iPhone or iPad.
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