Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Am I the only one disappointed with AirPrint???
- Thread starter santie321
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
When Apple announced the feature in September they said it would work with any printer shared through a computer (Mac or Windows).
They removed the support for that at the last minute.
How is it NOT is more appropriate.
I would have no problem believing it comes down to licensing of sorts and Apple has gotten the approval from HP but has not worked out deals with other manufacturers. Because prior to the last beta, everyone seemed to have no problem printing to any printer on the network.
I'll admit I was disappointed, mainly because the Apple site is very vague about which printers will work. That being said, I already have Print n Share, so I can print, but was looking forward to smoother integration with other apps.
I'm sure it will improve. It would be nice if we could upgrade our existing HP wireless printers to be ePrint-capable, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm sure it will improve. It would be nice if we could upgrade our existing HP wireless printers to be ePrint-capable, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
There is another thread about how to setup AirPrint to work with other printers still. I followed the steps and now I am printing to my Brother printer from my iPad. Only took me like 5 minutes to get working.
Apple already said they will be bringing out the feature soon based on the one Steve Jobs email.
Apple already said they will be bringing out the feature soon based on the one Steve Jobs email.
Sure the lack of support for shared printers as standard is an annoyance, but it takes about 5 minutes to implement the workaround on a Windows host - printing now works perfectly for me from an iphone to a Win7 shared printer.
it does suck i used 4.2 gm and my kyocera color laser printer thru the ipad just fine. now it doesn't since i upgraded to 4.2.1 Not a huge deal for me as I don't print much stuff anyway but it would be nice to have the ability back. hopefully in 4.3 it will come back. I tried to fake it out by installing a supported driver on my computer but I guess it needs to connect directly via wifi to the printer.
You can still use it with any printer if you do the small change required to a couple OSX files. I'm having no problems printing to my Canon printer.
See this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1047779/
i just did this and got my printing working again.
I'm also not satisfied with the printing functionality...I have a 5 month old HP wi-fi printer and apparently it's not supported. NOT HAPPY!
Man, I just looked at your name: Bet you're a happy camper today! Maybe I should change my screen name to "Japanchargerfan!" Sorry, back to topic.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
Enjoying this feature with my new HP printer. Works great.
Enjoying this feature with my new HP printer. Works great.
gimme a break Apple. you spout off 4.2 with AirPrint as a big to do and only support 11 printers?! i have an HP Office DeskJet6500 (wireless printer) and was very excited about this new feature. bleh
would you rather them release support for your printer with bugs, or just not release it at all?
i guess it wouldn't matter cause you would complain anyways.
I'm disappointed. I'll wait to see what other developments occur before passing final judgement.
What I've noticed a lot lately with Apple products is that they announce all of these wonderful features that they are going to bring us, and then are forced to scale them way back because they haven't finished their negotiations with whomever holds the rights to whatever it is that they are about to release. I'd prefer it if they finished dotting the i's and crossing the t's before they announced the latest "Magic"!
What? People still use printers nowadays??? I thought they were long gone with floppy disks and vcr's???