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AirPrint - Does it work poll - The Facts
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I never had a 10.6.5 beta installed. Airprint does not work for me. FWIW my direct connected printer is a laser. Maybe it makes a different if it's inkjet or laser since all of HP's printers that are directly compatible are inkjet.
All my Mac's see my printers via bonjour fine. It's only my iDevices that do not.
All my Mac's see my printers via bonjour fine. It's only my iDevices that do not.
Here's the word going around over the past few hours:
If you have iOS 4.2 GM installed and have a beta version of Mac OS X 10.6.5, AirPrint will work.
If you have iOS 4.2 GM installed and updated your Mac FROM a beta version of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to the public copy released today, AirPrint will work.
If you have iOS 4.2 GM installed and updated from Mac OS X 10.6.4 to Mac OS X 10.6.5 with no beta releases involved, AirPrint will not work.
If you have iOS 4.2 GM installed and have a beta version of Mac OS X 10.6.5, AirPrint will work.
If you have iOS 4.2 GM installed and updated your Mac FROM a beta version of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to the public copy released today, AirPrint will work.
If you have iOS 4.2 GM installed and updated from Mac OS X 10.6.4 to Mac OS X 10.6.5 with no beta releases involved, AirPrint will not work.
That is the sense that I was getting however I have also seen a couple places where people said that they didn't have the betas. So either they don't know what they are talking about or got really lucky.
9to5 mac reported the following...
"Weve heard multiple reports from users that the golden master seed of iOS 4.2 still had a few bugs and because of this, we believe Apple has been fixing up iOS 4.2 the last couple days and has changed some algorithms related to AirPrint. So, hopefully Friday well know the full story as to if AirPrint will work with iOS 4.2′s public release or not."
If that's true then there is hopefully nothing to worry about and as soon as 4.2 Final is released everything will be all good.
It's impossible that it works without having a beta installed. It either works for everyone or it doesn't.
Don't believe everything you read
Had betas, airprint never worked for me
10.6.5 h571 --> h574 --> public release;
iOS 4.2 GM;
iTunes 10.1b10;
iPhone 4;
Brother color laser multifunction (MFC-9840CDW), connected to iMac via wifi;
Updated drivers and firmware--and reinstalled today;
Print Sharing enabled.
With both betas and the final release of 10.6.5, I get "No Printers Found."
10.6.5 h571 --> h574 --> public release;
iOS 4.2 GM;
iTunes 10.1b10;
iPhone 4;
Brother color laser multifunction (MFC-9840CDW), connected to iMac via wifi;
Updated drivers and firmware--and reinstalled today;
Print Sharing enabled.
With both betas and the final release of 10.6.5, I get "No Printers Found."
I have that same printer and it doesn't work for me either... I think Brother has to release a software or firmware update in order for it to work... Until then...
It's a little different now that Apple pulled the AirPrint files from 10.6.5 final release. You can add them back with AirPrint hacktivator or use Printopia. As long as the Brother printer shows up in OS X to print to Printopia will work for sure.
How easy is it to install Printopia? I'm sure I can wait for Apple to implement this feature, but if Printopia is simple, I may try that...
It's working for me, I had to update the printer and use Airprint Hacktivator to get my Dell 1815 network printer working.
I have printopia and it's awesome. Had some issues with it at first, but it's been a breeze since. Everything prints perfectly from my canon wireless printer, whether it's from my iphone or ipad.
Only bad thing is you need your computer to be on. Can't just print from the ipad with it off or in sleep mode, but you can live with that.